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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
When orientated in the same manner as the Piltdown skull, 
and placed within the same framework of lines, we see 
(fig. 144) that we are dealing with a man with a massive 
head. The vault, however, is relatively low, it barely 
reaches the loo-mm. line ; the great supra-orbital buttress 
Fig. 
144. — Four types of human skulls compared — Galley Hill, Piltdown, 
La Chapelle-aux-Saints, and Pithecanthropus. 
projects 8 mm. in front of the anterior 200-mm. line. 
We are not surprised when we learn from Professor 
Boule that the brain of this fossil man measured 1625 c.c. 
— fully 200 c.c. more than the Piltdown brain, and 
therefore well beyond the average for modern man. We 
are not concerned at present with the peculiar attachment 
