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regards the Grimaldi people we have to judge from the 
skeleton alone. One important negroid feature is absent 
from both of these Grimaldi skeletons, namely, the 
negroid contour of the forehead. In pure negroes and 
in negroid races, the right and left eminences of the 
forehead — of the frontal bones — tend to fuse together 
in the middle line so as to form a single eminence 
of peculiar shape, such as we have seen in a Neolithic 
skull from Malta (fig. 6, p. 15). In the Grimaldi lad 
and woman, probably his mother — for they are very much 
alike — the forehead is of the European form, the frontal 
bosses are not fused. The skull is long and narrow, as 
is the case in most negroes, but the same head measure- 
ments also occur in white races. Wheii we come to deal 
with the features of the face, we recognise that there are 
some negroid traits. The teeth are large, causing the jaw 
to protrude in front of the nasal opening and the chin to 
recede. The lower margin of the nasal openings as seen 
on the skull are not sharp as in white races, but grooved 
or guttered as in pigmented races. The face, too, is short, 
as in most black races. The orbits, although of more 
than average width, are narrow from above downwards — 
the upper and lower orbital margins are unduly approxi- 
mated, giving the face a sinister look. That, we have seen, 
is also a character of the Cromagnon race. The nose 
was apparently shaped much as it is in native Australians. 
These two Grimaldi skeletons then do show certain 
negroid features, and still, to my mind, a full analysis will 
prove that they are of the Cromagnon race, or of a people 
nearly allied to that race. 
In the proportion of his limbs, the negro shows certain 
peculiar features which distinguish him from modern 
European races. In the first place, his leg is long as 
compared with his thigh. In the European, the leg bone 
(tibia) is less than 80 per cent, of the thigh bone or 
femur ; in negroes, the tibia is over 80 per cent., usually 
between 81 and 84 per cent. In Cromagnon skeletons — 
from the Paviland cave in Wales, from Cromagnon itself, 
and from the Grimaldi caves — the tibia varies from 8 i 
