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viction of the Ent^lisli experts as to their modern character, to hare come 
to doubt his original belief in the authenticity of the jaw. H. F." 
We will now return to M. de Quatrefages' paper before the French 
Academy, as the particulars are interesting, and one point is worthy of 
some consideration. 
" The jaw was found ... in an undisturbed quaternary deposit at ]\Iou- 
lin-Quignon, near Abbeville. Below is the section of the beds : — 
" Section at MorLiN-QuiGxoN. 
Metres. 
1. Coating of vegetable earth 0 30 
2. Undisturbed earth, grey sand mixed with broken flints . . . 0 70 
3. Yellow argillaceous sand mingled Avith large flints slightly rolled, 
resting on a bed of grey sand 1-50 
4. Yellow ferruginous sand, flints more or less rolled like the pre- 
ceding, below which is a bed of sand less yellow. In this bed 
have been found fragments of teeth, etc., of Elephas primigenius 
and flint-implements 1*70 
5. Black sand, argillo-ferruginous, colouring the hand and adhering 
to it, apparently containing organic matters ; small pebbles 
more rolled than in the superior beds ; fossil human jaw . . 0*50 
4-70 
6. Bed of chalk on which reposes the bed of black argillaceous sand 
at a depth of 5 metres below the surface. 
" The argillo-ferruginous bed in which the jaw was found varies in 
places from 0'30 to 0"()0 metre in thickness. No part of it is confounded 
with the beds above, and it follows all the undulations of the chalk under 
it ; thus it may be said to lie at a depth of from 4 to 5 metres from the 
surface. . . . 
"The jaw is in a remarkable state of preservation. It does not appear 
to be at all rotted. The extremity of the coronoid apophysis itself is 
intact. This fact would make one think it had not come from far, and 
would give the hope that there may yet be found some other part of the 
skeleton of which it formed part. M. de Perthes has desired that the 
greatest respect may be paid to the f/ajigne which still adheres to some 
points of the surface ; he has washed the extremity of the coronoid apo- 
physis and a part of the head of the condyle. There one perceives that 
the brown tint which the whole bone presents has not penetrated deeply. 
Gravel-stones washed with care have presented a similar peculiarity. 
The gangue conceals some details, especiall}^ on the internal side ; but it 
permits, however, a sufficiently complete study. When we examine this 
jaw, we are at once struck with two peculiarities— the angle formed by 
the horizontal ramus and the ascending ramus is extremely open ; the 
fourth molar, which alone is in place, is slightly inclined forward. These 
two traits had been even somewhat exaggerated in a drawing which was 
first sent to me, and perhaps to this cause is due the attention which 
from the first they have elicited from me. Should we see there a race- 
character? Before examining in this point of view, let us remark that for 
man, as for animals, the comparative osteology of races, in respect to de- 
tails, is still very little advanced. It is a new study, to which palaeontolo- 
gists are necessarily put as well as anthropologists, by reason of the facts 
which tend to bring into contact the history of animals and that of man. 
The obtuseness {ouverture) of the angle of which I speak is one of those 
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