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still there are just in this respect considerable differences. The 

 supraciliary ridges are very prominent in the maleSj and the 

 depression between them and the nose is very deepj as is the 

 groove above the ridges, whilst in the females the forehead 

 seems to slide without any perceptible depression into the 

 rather projecting pug-nose. The greatest elevation of the skull 

 is almost perpendicularly above the external meatus auditorius, 

 and viewed in profile the skull is in its posterior part uniformly 

 arched. In but few skulls can there be detected a tendency 

 to prognathism ; in most of them the front teeth are perpen- 

 dicular. Viewed from above, the skulls appear broadly elliptic, 

 the anterior portion being nearly as rounded as the posterior. 

 The greatest width is in the posterior third, about the region 

 of the parietal prominences. The zygomatic arches are short, 

 but curved outwardly. Viewed in front, the forehead appears 

 low but uniformly arched ; viewed at the back, the angles of 

 the pentagon seem rounded so as to form a circular line. In 

 fact, no further particulars are requisite to establish that these 

 skulls also present a pai'ticular type, that they nowise agree 

 either with the skulls of Lombrive or with those of Engis and 

 the Neanderthal, but that they belong to a separate race, which 

 inhabited Denmark at the remotest period. 



The cranial fragment of Meilen, in the Canton of Zurich, is 

 the only human relic from the Swiss stone period possessing 

 any important relation to the determination of race. It is un- 

 fortunately so imperfect that it affords no certain index as 

 regards the shape of the skull; still it affords some clue to 

 certain proportions. His, of Basle, describes this fragment as 

 follows : The forehead appears moderately high, finely arched ; 

 the supraciliary arch is greatly developed ; the semicircular 

 line around the temporal fossa is but faintly marked. The 

 occiput is roundish, but unsymmetrical ; of the spine and the 

 ridge of the occipital bone there are only the vestiges ; the 

 superior semicircular line is hardly recognisable ; downwards 

 it appears as a faint osseous ridge. These conditions do not 

 seem to indicate that the skuU belonged to a muscular 

 individual. 



The Meilen skull belonged, in fact, to a child apparently 



