584 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL 
referred really do exist, and are open to the inspection of any person 
who chooses to examine them in the Museum of the Royal College of 
Surgeons. 
Professor Schaafhausen concludes thus :— 
“JT remark besides that No. LXIII of Blumenbach’s Decades 
Craniorum, which represents the skull of a Dutchman of the island of 
Marken (Batavus genuinus), presents a great resemblance to that of 
the Neanderthal.” 
I do not think that Professor Schaafhausen would have made this 
remark had he been disposed to consider with more favour what I have 
said respecting the marked peculiarity of the occipital region of the 
MANET 
Fie. 
Reduced copy of Blumenbach’s figure o. a ‘‘ Batavus genuinus.” The contour of the 
Neanderthal skull, reduced to the same length, is drawn upon the figure ; the glabelle being 
made to correspond, and the superior curved line of the Neanderthal skull being adjusted’ to 
the point @ of the other. The skulls are not reduced to the same scale, and hence this 
figure only gives the different proportions of the two. 
Neanderthal skull. There is, it is true, a certain approximation be- 
tween the skull in question and that from the Neanderthal in the 
rapid backward slope of the frontal region; but it is not closer than 
IT have seen in many other skulls, and more particularly in one of an 
English sailor, long ago pointed out to me by Mr. Busk. On the 
other hand, the occipital region of the Batavian cranium, a faithful re- 
duced copy of which is here given, (fig. 1,) differs most remarkably 
from that of the Neanderthal man. 
The superior curved line of the occiput is not represented in 
