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Tlie examination of the cast taken from the internal surface 

 of tlie Neander skuUj kindly sent me by Professor Fuhlrott, 

 fally confirms the opinion derived from the inspection of the 

 bones. As already stated^ some at least of the principal con- 

 volutions of the cerebral surface^ as well as the vessels and 

 the so-called Pacchionian glands, leave impressions upon the 

 inner surface of the skull and admit of some comparisons. 



On comparing the side-view with that of the external 

 surface, reduced to the same scale, namely, fig. 94, or the 

 top view with fig. 95, we are immediately struck by the 

 difference in size, which is mainly the result of the great thick- 

 Fig. 99. Cast of the cerebral surface of tlie Neander Skull, side view. 



Fiff. 100. Same cast viewed from above. 



ness of the ci'anial bones. Professor Schaaffhausen, of Bonn, 

 who compared this cast with that of an Austral-negro, has the 



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