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THE GEOLOGIST. 



craniologisi. This most ordinary type exhibits a fairly-developed 

 forehead, a full and high, but not shelving, occiput, supraorbital 

 ridges not prominent, and, generally speaking, analogous to dozens 

 of Indo-European crania. In the Nepal collection in the British 



Fig. 3. — Human skull from Engis (scale ^ linear). 



Museum there are several skulls which resemble the Engis cranium 

 in their configuration. It is dolichocephalic, but does not approach 

 to any of the boat-shaped (kumbecephalic) skulls which have been 

 afforded to us from graves in Scotland of the early " Stone period." 



Massat. — The remains from this bone-cave do not afford us any 

 evidences which would lead us to distinguish their cranial type. Only 

 a few teeth have been discovered associated with remains of Felis 

 spclcca, TIrsus spelcsus, Hycena spelwa, etc. 



JPlaic {MecJclenhirg] .—Y\g. 4. — The skeleton to which this skull 

 belonged was found in silicious sand, six feet below the surface, 

 associated with bone implements made out of the osseous remains 

 of stag and boar. Dr. Schauff hausen says : " A very high antiquity 

 was assigned to this grave, as it was wholly unprotected by any 

 masonry, and aftbrded no trace of cremation having been prac- 

 tised, nor any implements of stone, clay, or metal." "Similar argu- 

 ments might be adduced in favour of the higli antiquity of the 

 sohhers buried at Inkernmn, who, tossed into a pit naked or with a 

 blanket round tiiem, would afford no evidences of masonry, crema- 



