384 LECTUEE XIII. 



skulls of Lombrive belong to a race differing entirely from 

 Belgo-Rlienisli cave-skulls. All tlie ckaracters are so opposed, 

 tbat a descent of tbe Lombrive skulls from tbose of Engis, 

 or any affinity between themj is inadmissible. We do not 

 deny tliat a long period had elapsed between tke time in 

 wliicli the man of Engis and the Neanderthal fought with the 

 cave-bear, to that epoch when the man of Lombrive hunted 

 the reindeer. But, on the other hand, it can scarcely be 

 assumed, that considering these generations of men to have 

 lived in the same conditions, such a period of time should have 

 sufficed to produce such a radically different race. 



Passing from these skulls to those of the Stone period of 

 Denmark, which appear to me to belong to a later age, I find 

 again a thorough difference in the general characters. 



As already stated, Mr. Busk, a distinguished naturalist of 

 London, kindly furnished me with an elaborate table of mea- 

 surements of twenty skulls, half of this number having been 

 found at Borreby, and the rest in six different places. Seven 

 skulls of Borreby were represented by masterly drawings in 

 the most various aspects, so that I am, as regards the mate- 

 rials, as well provided as is possible in the absence of the 

 originals. The heads are, on the whole, not too small, 

 for their greatest longitudinal diameters vary between 6"58 

 and 7, 8 English inches, consequently about 171 to 195 

 millimeters, and at all events the length and breadth of these 

 heads exceed those of the Lapps with which they have been 

 compared. Setting aside those whose longitudinal diameter 

 seems to indicate youth or the female sex (there are six such 

 skulls), we have a series of fourteen adult skulls, the length of 

 which oscillates between 7'2 : 7"8, that is about six-tenths 

 English inches, or fifteen millimeters, namely from 180 to 195. 

 This certainly is an important agreement, which, like the 

 forms of the heads in general, leads to the conclusion that there 

 was a great uniformity in this old stock. 



On examining the proportion of length to the width, we 

 find that the oscillation is greater, taking the length at 100, it 

 is 71*8 to 85' 7 ; that is nearly 14 per cent. But, again, setting 

 aside the skulls of the young and the females, of which the 



