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the Cro-Magnon man, while the forehead and anterior half of the skull 
agree with the Cro-Magnon and Bantu types, and not at all with the 
Neanderthal. The temporal bone is somewhat primitive in its characters, 
and seems to indicate a somewhat more degraded type than does the skull- 
cap : a semblance which may just possibly be due to sex. The lower jaw 
is comparatively small and akin in character to that of the Bantu or 
Bushman type. The details of the various bones are briefly discussed, and 
figures are given to indicate the relations of the skull-cap to other types. 
Fragments of limb-bones found in the neighbourhood of the skull-cap are 
described by E. B. Thomson as human. These comprise portions of the 
shafts of the left ulna and radius, of the left tibia and fibula, and two 
portions of the right femoral shaft. Stones which were supposed possibly 
to bear traces of human workmanship are stated by L. Peringuey not to be 
artefacts. 
In the discussion which followed upon this communication. Dr. 
PERINGUEY said : — 
Mr. Haughton has told you of 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 be 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. 
To anyone having, as you have before you, the casts of most of the 
pre-historic human skulls known hitherto, it is obvious that the skull of 
the Boskop man, incomplete as it is, does not belong to the type of the 
Neanderthal. 
That it has strong primitive characters is patent, but that these affinities 
are with the La Chapelle man is disproved by Mr. Haughton's explanation. 
Eather does most of the evidence tend to prove that these unfortunately 
somewhat scanty remains belong to a type characterised in European pre- 
historic deposits by the man and woman of Cro-Magnon. 
