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EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



No. 70. Human Skull," discovered in 1857, 

 in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal, be- 

 tween Dusseldorf and Elberfeld. The rest, of 

 the skeleton was found with it. The part of 

 the cranium preserved consists of the portion 

 above the roof of the orbits, and the superior 

 occipital ridges. It includes almost the whole 

 of the frontal bone, both parietals, a small 

 part of the temporals, and the upper part of 

 the occipital. The surface of the original is 

 covered with delicate dendrites. It is the most 

 pithecoid of human crania yet discovered, and 

 has a very small cerebral development. The 

 posterior cerebral lobes must have projected 

 considerably beyond the cerebellum ; thus 

 showing a similarity to certain Australian 

 skulls. The conclusions of Prof. Huxley are : 

 First, that the extraordinary form of the skull is due to a natural con- 

 formation, hitherto not known to exist even in the most barbarous races ; 

 secondly, that it belongs to a period antecedent to the time of the Celts in 

 Germany, and was in all probability derived from one of the wild races of 

 Northwestern Europe {autochthonus) ; and thirdly, that it is beyond doubt 

 traceable to a period at which the latest animals of the diluvium still 

 existed. Further facts on the subject may be found in Ly ell's Antiquity 

 of Man, 



No. 71. Dodo ineptus. Foot; skin still covering. Pleistocene: Isle Mauritius. 



No. 72. Rhinoceros -. Lower jaw; right ramus. Pliocene: Central France. 



No. 73. Rhin/)ceros minutus. Last molar tooth. Miocene: Steinheim, Wirtemberg. 



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No. 75. Anchitherium hairdii. Head. Eocene: Mauvaises terres, Ne))raaka. 



No. 76. FalcBotherium crassum. Lower jaw. Eocene Tertiary: Paris. France. 



