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the skeleton given by Professor Schaffhausen, which 

 show that the absolute height and relative proportions 

 of the limbs were quite those of an European of mid- 

 dle stature. The bones are indeed stouter, but this, 

 and the great development of the muscular ridges, 

 noted by Dr. Schaffhausen, are characters to be ex- 

 pected in savages. Patagonians, exposed without 

 shelter or protection to a climate possibly not very 

 dissimilar from that of Europe at the time during 

 which the Neanderthal man lived, are remarkable for 

 the stoutness of their limb bones. In no sense, then, 

 oan the Neanderthal bones be regarded as the remains 

 of a human being intermediate between Man and 

 Apes. In conclusion, I may say, that the fossil re- 

 mains of man hitherto discovered do not seem to me 

 to take us appreciably nearer to that lower pithecoid 

 form, by the modification of which he has, probably, 

 become what he is." * 



Such were Huxley's views with regard to men and 

 apes, and no fossils have since been discovered which, 

 if he were still living, would cause him to change 

 these views. 



The latest discovery of the supposed connecting 

 link was made by Dr. Dubois, in Java, near Trinil. 



With regard to these bones, Cope says: "The 

 characters of the skull are closely similar to those of 

 the men of Neanderthal and Spy, but the walls are 

 not so thick as those of the former, and more nearly 

 resemble those of the latter." t The cranial capacity 

 of the gorilla i3 500 cubic centimetres, that of the 

 man of Java 1,000, and that of the lowest normal 

 man 1,500 cubic centimetres. This last statement, 

 with regard to the least capacity of the normal skull 

 of man, is not correct, as the author himself shows on 

 the same page. 



* Cyclopedia of Science, p. 253. t Page 169. 



