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condyles. The lesser trochanter is moderately developed, and there 

 is a strong linea aspera. The distal condyles could not have heen 

 unusually large, and certainly did not project abnormally either 

 forwards or backwards. 



Parts of both tibiae are preserved ; they are neither of them in a 

 condition to give any idea of their length, although enough of the 

 shaft of the right one is preserved to show that it was small and 

 has no tendency to platycnemism (PI. XVI. fig. 8). At about 40 

 millim. below the nutritive foramen its antero-posterior diameter is 

 about 31 millim. and its transverse diameter 24 millim. The hinder 

 surface of the shaft is fairly rounded, and does not project to any 

 unusual distance behind the level of the interosseous ridge : the 

 proportion being in front of this level 22 millim., behind it 9 millim. 

 ( = 244 to 100U). The interosseous or fibular ridge is well marked, 

 and there is a broad longitudinal depression in front of it. The 

 anterior edge of the bone is sharp. 



The shaft of the right humerus is preserved, and is remarkable for 

 the flattening of its inner surface, as well as for the extraordinary 

 development of its anterior oblique ridges ; these striking characters, 

 however, may be fairly matched among the series of humeri preserved 

 in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It is evident 

 that the corresponding muscles were well developed. 



There is a stout clavicle, which calls for no special remark, 

 except that the ridges and rugosities are strongly marked. 



The fragments of the pelvis and sacrum are too small to 

 exhibit any useful diagnostic characters. 



III. The Galley Hill Skeleton compaeed with other Races. 



1. British Fossil Human Remains. 



Human bones have frequently been found in British caves ; they 

 are, however, with few exceptions, of Neolithic age or of more 

 recent date ; and the few that have been met with under circum- 

 stances indicating a possibility of Palaeolithic age are too fragmentary 

 to supply any satisfactory information as to the physical characters 

 of the skeletons to which they have belonged. The fibula from 

 the Victoria Cave at Settle, Yorkshire, 1 is not human. Prof. W. 

 Boyd Dawkins 2 speaks of a human tooth from the cave at Plas 

 Newydd as ' the only piece of the human frame of late Pleistocene 

 age found in Great Britain.' The portion of a cranium discovered 

 by Mr. Henry Prigg 3 in brick-earth at Westley, Suffolk, and figured 

 by Mr. Worthington Smith, 4 was too small a fragment to give any 

 idea of the form of the cranium of which it was a part. The 

 humerus from Kent's Cavern, determined by the late W. Davies, 



1 Busk, Journ. Anthr. Inst. vol. iii. (1874) p. 392. 



2 ' Early Man in Britain,' pp. 192 & 225. 



3 Journ. Anthr. Inst. vol. xiv. (1885) p. 51. 



4 ' Man the Primeval Savage,' 8vo. London, 1894, p. 281. 



