Note on the Ancient Human Shull-remalns from, the Transvaal. 13 
Antero-posterior Transverse Index 
diameter, diameter. 
Neanderthal cast . . 30 . 40 . 75 
Spy cast .... 32 . 43 . 74-41 
Boskop femur ... 28 . 44 . 63*63 
The photographs appended have been prepared under the direction of 
Dr. Peringuey. In order that the fragments may stand out from the 
laterite, these have been lightly touched with white paint. 
Note on Fragments of Stone found in Excavating for the 
BosKOP Remains. 
By L. Peringuey, D.Sc, Director S. African Museum. 
Mr. Haughton brought back a few fragments of sandstone with angular 
borders found partially encased in laterite in the excavation carried to a 
depth of nearly 8 feet over an area of about 25 square yards around the spot 
which was pointed out to him as being directly over the original position of 
the skull-cap of the Boskop man. 
A superficial examination was sufiicient to reject most specimens as not 
being artefacts. Two which were thickly coated with the ferruginous 
matrix, with ends only partly showing, were very carefully developed, with 
the result that I can ascribe to them nothing but a natural origin. Man's 
hand had no share in the shaping. 
One of these pseudo implements has truly a facies approximating to that 
of an artefact ; but if shaped by man, the median ridge of the upper face 
should be sharp, whereas it is rounded and not continuous in the original. 
This is the only piece that might be taken as simulating a long flake, but it 
is an accidental simulation. 
However much I regret that no lithological evidence is forthcoming in 
connection with the find of the Boskop man, I find it impossible to consider 
any of the fragments of stone found in the breccia as being artefacts. 
