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satisfactory teeth and bones lately found in a fissure in the Table-case 

 Carboniferous Limestone near Buxton, Derbyshire. A typical la - 

 series of the Crag fossils is exhibited in Table-case 1a. 

 Mastodon, Hipparion, Tapirus, Gazella, and Hysenarctos, are 

 the most noteworthy genera. Some of the specimens may 

 have been washed out of Miocene deposits. 



SYSTEMATIC COLLECTION. 



Class.— MAMMALIA. 

 Sub-class I. — Eutheria. 



Order I. — PRIMATES. 

 Sub-order 1. — Anthropoidea. 



As already mentioned, the bones and teeth of man are Table-ease 

 very rare in geological formations — he is usually represented pi er _c ases 

 merely by his handiwork. A few important specimens, 2, 3. 

 however, have been discovered, and plaster casts of these 

 are exhibited in Table-case 1. There is a copy of the top 

 of a skull, of a very lowly type, found with the remains of 

 Pleistocene mammals in a cavern in the Neanderthal, near 

 Diisseldorf, Germany. There are also copies of two imperfect 

 skulls and some limb-bones of a similar lowly kind of man 

 discovered in undoubted association with Pleistocene mammals 

 in the cavern of Spy, near Namur, Belgium. These specimens 

 seem to represent a human race inferior to any now existing, 

 but comprising powerfully built individuals. The forehead 

 is low ; the bony ridges above the eyes are very prominent ; 

 and the chin is somewhat retreating. The radius and ulna 

 are unusually divergent in the middle of the fore-arm. The 

 femur is somewhat bent, and the tibia is comparatively 

 short, so that the leg cannot have been quite upright in 

 walking. 



Most of the actual bones of man preserved in the Pier-case 2. 

 collection are probably quite modern compared with the 

 primitive race just mentioned. In Table-ease 1 there are 

 parts of the skeleton of an aged man found at a depth of 

 34 feet in the Thames mud during the excavation of Tilbury 

 Docks. In Pier-case 2 is placed the famous human skeleton 



