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rescued it from oblivion.^ In fig. 36, I give a drawing 
of this specimen — the right half of a palate. Side by side 
1 have set the left half of a palate from a famous French 
skull of Aurignacian date, that found at Combe Capelle.- 
In shape and size, these two halves are very similar. 
The teeth, too, agree in dimension, shape, and character. 
In the adjoining drawing in fig. 36, I have represented 
the left half of the palate of a modern English skull, 
and the right half of the palate of a member of an extinct 
primitive race — the Tasmanian. The area of a well- 
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Z830 mm- 
Fig. 36.— a. Right half of palate from Kent's Cavern. 
B. Left ,, ,, Combe Capelle. 
C. Right ,, ,, Tasmanian. 
D. Left ,, ,, modern Englishman. 
developed palate of a modern Englishman is about 
2800 mm., the area being the space bounded by the 
outer margins of the crowns of the teeth. The hinder 
border of the area is demarcated by a line joining the 
posterior margin of the last or third molar teeth (see 
p. 150). The particular Tasmanian palate represented 
in fig. 36 has an area of 3680 mm., 1200 mm. more than 
in the English palate. In the case of the two palates of 
Palaeolithic man represented in fig. 36, the palatal area 
1 See Journal of the Torquay Natural History Society, 191 3. See 
also Bnt. Assoc. Reports, Dundee, 1912. 
- See p. 108. 
