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longitudinal contour of the X eandertlial skull and that of some of those 
skulls from the tumuli at Borreby, very accurate drawings of which have 
been made by Mr. Busk, is very close. The occiput is quite as retreating, 
the supraciliary arches are nearly as prominent, and the skull is as low. 
Furthennore, the Borreby skull resembles the Neanderthal form more 
closely than any of the Australian skulls do, by the much more rapid re- 
trocession of the forehead ; on the other hand, the Borreby skulls are all 
somewhat broader, in proportion to their length, than the jS^eanderthal 
skull, while some attain that proportion of breadth to length (80: LOO) 
■which constitutes brachycephaly," 
" In conclusion, I may say that the fossil remains of man hitherto dis- 
covered do not seem to me to take us appreciably nearer to that lower pi- 
thecoid form, by the modification of which he has probably become what 
he is. And considering what is now known of the most ancient races of 
men, — seeing that they fashioned flint axes, and flint knives, and bone 
skewers, of much the same pattern as those fabricated by the lov^-est 
savages at the present day, and that we have every reason to believe the 
habits and modes of living of such people to have remained the same from 
the time of the mammoth and the tichorhine rhinoceros till now, — I do not 
know that this result is other than might be expected." 
"Where, then, must we look for primaeval man? Was the oldest 
Homo sapiens pliocene or miocene, or yet more ancient ? In still older 
strata, do the fossilized bones of an ape more anthropoid, or a man more 
pithecoid, than any yet known, await the researches of some unborn palae- 
ontologist ? 
" Time will show. But in the meanwhile, if any form of the doctrine of 
progressive development is correct, we must extend by long epochs the 
most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of man." 
Such are a few of the more interesting passages which we have selected 
from Professor Huxley's work. The subject has been discussed in the 
' Geologist ' frequently during the last two years,* and we have no doubt 
that the publication of Professor Huxley's work, although it appears late 
in the month of February, will not fail to arouse the attention of geologists 
and anthropologists. 
* Vol. iv. (1861), p. 396 ; vol. v. (1862), pp. 187, 201, 205, 303, 313, 314, 424, etc. 
