876 Address of A. R. Wallace at the Glasgow Meeting 
thoughtless brains of a savage.” The latter are still more re- 
markable, being unusually large and well-formed. Dr. Pruner- 
Bey states that they surpass the average of modern Huropean 
skulls in capacity, while their symmetrical forms, without any 
trace of prognathism, compares favorably not only with the 
foremost savage races, but with many civilized nations of 
modern times. 
One or two other crania of much lower type, but of less an- 
numerous carvings and drawings representing a variety of ani- 
mals, including horses, reindeer, and even a mammoth, exe- 
cuted with considerable skill on bone, reindeer-horns, and 
mammoth-tusks. These, taken together, indicate a state of 
civilization much higher than that of the lowest of our modern 
savages, while it is quite compatible with a considerable degree 
of mental advancement, and leads us to believe that the cranta 
of Engis and Cro-Magnon are not exceptional, but fairly repre 
sent the characters of the race. If we further remember that 
these people lived in Europe under the unfavorable conditions 
of a sub-Arctic climate, we shall be inclined to agree wit e 
Daniel Wilson, that it is far easier to produce evidences of de- 
terioration than of progress in instituting a comparison between 
the contemporaries of the mammoth and later_prehistori¢ races 
: ic Man,” 3d ed., vol. i, p. 117. 
+ Man and Apes,” pp. 171-193. 
