TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
VOL. VI. 
PEELIMINAEY NOTE ON THE ANCIENT HUMAN SKULL- 
EEMAINS FEOM THE TEANSVAAL. 
By S. H. Haughton, Assistant Director, South African Museum. 
With Notes Appended on Fragments of Limb-bones by E. B. 
Thomson, and Fragments of Stone by L. Peringuey, Director, 
South African Museum. 
(With Plates I-X.) 
(Eead October 20, 1915.) 
Towards the end of the year 1913 Mr. F. W. FitzSimons, of the Port 
Elizabeth Museum, was shown the portion of the skull-cap herein described 
which had been unearthed in making an underground drain on the farm 
Kolonies Plaats, Boskop, in the Potchefstroom district of the Transvaal. 
He recognised it as a human relic, and proceeded to make further excava- 
tions on the site. A year later further excavations were made by officers of 
the South African Museum and the Port Elizabeth Museum aided by a 
grant from the Eoyal Society of South Africa, but the results obtained were 
very poor. The remains found consist of a large portion of a calvaria, the 
horizontal portion of the left ramus of the mandible, the major portion of 
^ temporal bone, and some fragmentary limb-bones. It is intended that 
these remains shall be described more fully later ; but in view of notices of 
a misleading character which have already appeared in print, it has been 
thought advisable to publish a preliminary note with a few details. For 
permission to do this, I have to thank Dr. Peringuey, the Director of the 
South African Museum, to whom the remains were originally sent for 
investigation and report. 
Occurrence. — The portion of the farm on which the remains were dis- 
xjovered consists of a cultivated field lying on the east (left) bank of the 
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