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from the Neandertal. Of the Solutrean man we know nothing. But 
Mons. Obermaier, the well-known Anthropologist, working under the 
aegis of that generous patron of Oceanography and Prehistoric Antiquity, 
the Prince of Monaco, has quite lately discovered a skeleton in a well- 
defined Solutrean level in Bavaria. From this find much important 
information will be forthcoming. Of the Aurignacian man, we know two 
examples, the old woman and the young boy of the Grotte des Enfants, 
near Mentone. Both are pronounced to belong to a negroid race of low 
stature, plainly allied to, if not quite identical with the Bushman, who is 
a negroid race, and of very low stature. In some adjacent caves have 
been discovered steatopygous figurines. 
Thus we find proofs of the presence of a race akin to the Bush in the 
south-western part of Europe, and, moreover, of a race that is going to 
leave there proofs of its stay similar to those found in South Africa. 
It is these which we shall succinctly examine, for in an Address — 
which per se must needs be the generalization of a subject, a summary 
in fact — it is impossible to explain the deductions by means of examples, 
although I could not refrain from doing so in the case of the large 
picture here shown. 
The Bace. 
The outward appearance of the Bush race has often been discussed and 
enlarged upon. The average height is 144 cm., or 55| in. He is 
mesaticephalic and platyrhynchian. He is a negroid, it is true, but 
the length of arms is less than that of the negro. The forehead is not 
sloping like that of the latter, and is also broader. His two charac- 
teristics are the absence of a lower lobe of the ear and a heavy projec- 
tion of the upper eyelid. The Mongolian aspect, due to the great 
prominence of the cheek-bones, is quite fortuitous, and implies no 
connection with the latter race. The women, however, are remarkable, 
owing to natural characteristics found in no other existing races, namely, 
the elongation of the nymphae and the peculiar development of the nates, 
or buttocks, known under the name of steatopygia. This gluteal develop- 
ment doubtless stands as a reservoir of food, and is also present in the 
male, but in a very slight form. In the women the mammae become 
pendulous at a very early age. 
From Aurignacian deposits have been recovered a certain number of 
anthropomorphic figures in stone or ivory executed in round boss. They 
all present the same characteristic execution. " The features of the head 
are not indicated ; the breasts have an abnormal development ; the 
globular protuberance of the abdomen is veiy strong, and steatopygical 
characters are very much in evidence." I may add that these physical 
peculiarities are also to be found in numerous figures of prehistoric 
Egypt and in some of the ^gean Islands. 
