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THE GEOLOGIST. 
craniologist. 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 config^^-ation. 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 
spelcsa, Ursus spelceus, Hycena spelcea, etc. 
Plau {MecMenhurg^ . — Fig. 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. Schauffhausen says : " A very high antiquity 
was assigned to this grave, as it was wholly unprotected by any 
masonry, and afforded 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 
soldiers buried at Inkerman, who, tossed into a pit naked or with a 
blauket round them, would afford no evidences of masonry, crema- 
