376 LECTURE XIII. 



cranium, the backward vertex, with its steep declivity towards 

 the neck, were all present ; the length was nearly the same, 

 the width less, so that this cranium is the smallest known to 



Fig. 115. SkuU in the Museum of Bern, top view. 



me. Viewed from above, the form is the same, though the 

 bones of the Bernese skull are all smaller and thinner. The 

 anterior frontal prominence is transversely cut off, and the 

 occiput projects in such a manner that we have the figure of a 

 drawn-out pentagon with a posterior rounded apex. It -was 

 evident that I had before me the roof of a cranium which 

 belonged to the same race-type, and as regards form and size, 

 was intermediate between the Engis and Neander skull. 



You may easily imagine that this circumstance puzzled m^e 

 not a little, and that I spared no trouble to discover some 

 particulars as to the finding of this skull, which has been for 

 more than thirty years in the collection of the museum. My 

 endeavours were fruitless. The Bernese skull remained a 

 riddle as regards the place of its discovery. The old ticket put 

 upon it, probably by Albrecht Meckel, pointed out its resem- 

 blance to the skull of a Dutchman born at Leyden, and deli- 

 neated by Blumenbach. 



