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us for the proper identification of many of the species. The human re- 
mains contained in the second collection were, as in the previous one, 
very numerous, but, unfortunately, in an equally fragmentary condition, 
especially as regards the crania. In the two collections we have nearly 
and, taken in conjunction with the uumerous more or less perfect frontal 
a cireumstances, any further contributions to our anthropo- 
— materials from Gibraltar became of the utmost importance to us, 
James Cochrane , cave was a welcome addit f this kind. It is for- 
ately quite perfect, except that the lower jaw properly belonging to 
ithas been re ne of a different individual, and we are con- 
bone. The skull itself, as were most of the bones with which it was ac- 
companied, was encased in a very hard gray stalagmitic crust, in some 
parts several inches thick, and evidently the result of very and slow 
ition, t when this was 
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¢ally compared it as to allow of any definite opinion being given on the 
oceasion as to its nearest probable affinities, In one respect it Is 
of extreme interest i i 
