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1891.] Archeology and Ethnology. 767 
the great extension of territory which this man covered in prehistoric 
times. 
M. de Quatrefages presented a :manüsoripi of M. Hardy, of Peri- 
gueux, which was entitled, ‘‘ The Discovery of a Sepulchre of the 
Quaternary Period of Chancelade in Dordogne,” and gave several 
observations upon the skull of which Hardy has presented the photo- 
graph. ‘The skull was dolichocephalic, but asymetric ; the face large, 
the orbits of elongated form; the front was well developed, the 
femurs were columnar, the tibias platycnemic, and it altogether pre- 
sented the most striking and apparent characteristic of the race of 
Cro-Magnon. 
M. Manouvrier read a communication on the platymetry or flatten- 
ing of the antero-posterieur of the upper third of the diaphyse of 
the femur, that he had often observed upon human femurs in the neo- 
lithic period. 
M. Goldstein presented his pantometre, and explained its use and 
necessity in anthropological photographs. 
Dr. Verrier presented two Australian skulls. 
Dr. Soren Hansen presented his paper on prehistoric trepanning. 
Dr. Benedickt explained his method and apparatus on crainometry, 
and referred to his display at the exposition. 
Dr. Jacques presented the human remains gathered by the brothers 
Siret in Spain. These brothers Siret were civil engineers in Antwerp, 
and I had the privilege and the pleasure of wisiting and studying their 
collection while in that city. Their excavations were conducted prin- 
cipally in Southeastern Spain, in the country between Carthagene and 
Almeria. We have their magnificent and extensive volume, costing 
$1oo, in our library. Their investigations were regular, methodical, 
and scientific. The prehistoric epoch to which these investigations 
belonged were principally the neolithic period and the age of bronze. 
Dr. Jacques had studied seventy of these skulls and skeletons, the 
former complete, the latter more or less so, and gave his opinion as to 
the divisions to be made as to the races to which they belonged. One 
race, the most common, presented many analogies with that of Cro- 
Magnon, but with an-occasional characteristic of the type of Furfooz. 
The race of Furfooz was there shown by some specimens, though not 
so frequent as the former, A third group identified by Dr. Jacques 
compared with those of the Basques, and his conclusion was that the 
neolithic people southeast of Spain comprised cane belonging to- 
the most ancient epoch in the Iberian penins 
Dr. Topinard delivered a most interesting sie entitied “ Paleo- 
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