LECTUEE XIII. 375 



Professor Huxley has very justly drawn attention to the 

 fact, that the arching of the forehead and the skull greatly 

 varies in Australians, and it does not appear to me by any 

 means improbable that in the lower races, where the long and 

 flat skull of the adult must be developed out of the roundish and 

 arched skull of the child, the female has a skull higher arched 

 though narrower than that of the male. The di'awings of 

 Busk lead to the same result ; all the male skulls without ex- 

 ception stand, as regards the arching of the forehead and the 

 skull, far behind the female skulls which come from the same 

 locality and belong to the race of the stone period. 



Fig. 114. Skull of an Austral-Negro, after Lucae, side view. 



It has been generally asserted that among the present Eu- 

 ropean cranial forms, there was not one which any way ap- 

 proached that of the above cave skulls ; and, in point of fact, 

 the Dutch only show a distant approximation, inasmuch as they 

 possess the longest skulls in Europe. I was, therefore, not a 

 little surprised to find, in the Anatomical Museum of Berne, the 

 roof of a cranium, ticketed as having been found near Biel, 

 which Professor Valentin placed at my disposal, and which, on 

 examination, might be pronounced the twin brother of the 

 Neander skull ! The projecting supraciliary ridge, the de- 

 pression in the forehead, the flat ascending arch of the 



