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LECTURE X, 



The Engis skull is of medium size and belonged to an aged 

 subject, for the sutures are here and there obliterated, the 

 coronal suture especially. Possibly the skull is that of a 

 female, as the bones are thin in comparison with those of the 

 Neander skull. Viewed from above, the skull presents a 

 longish oval form ; its greatest width is in the posterior third ; 

 the apex, somewhat obtuse and rounded, is in the forehead. 

 It is decidedly a long head, for the greatest length to the 

 greatest width is as 100 to 70'1, a proportion which, accord- 

 ing to Welcker's table, approaches nearest the Esquimaux 

 skull, and is scarcely different from that of the ISTegro and 

 Austral-Negro. This length and narrowness of the skull, 

 with the small elevation of the forehead and the form of the 

 orbits so widely apart, induced Schmerling to characterise it 

 as an Ethiopian skull, which at that time was the more excus- 

 able as but little attention had yet been paid to the Austrahan 



Fig. 95. Top view of Engis SkuU. 



race. The Engis skull, however, is at once easily distin- 

 guished from that of the genuine Negro by its slight curva- 

 ture behind the orbits, where the Negro head seems com- 

 pressed ; consequently, too, by the lesser depth of the temporal 



