. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. No. BOi Palczotherzu777 crassU77i.^^ Left hindfoot. JEocone Tertiary: Paris, France. 44 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE No. 70. Human Skull, discovered in 1857,in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal, be-tween Dusseldorf and Elberfeld. The rest, ofthe skeleton was found with it. The part ofthe cranium preserved consists of the portionabove the roof of the orbits, and the superioroccipital
. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. No. BOi Palczotherzu777 crassU77i.^^ Left hindfoot. JEocone Tertiary: Paris, France. 44 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE No. 70. Human Skull, discovered in 1857,in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal, be-tween Dusseldorf and Elberfeld. The rest, ofthe skeleton was found with it. The part ofthe cranium preserved consists of the portionabove the roof of the orbits, and the superioroccipital ridges. It includes almost the wholeof the frontal bone, both parietals, a smallpart of the temporals, and the upper part ofthe occipital. The surface of the original iscovered with delicate dendrites. It is the mostpithecoid of human crania yet discovered, andhas a very small cerebral development. Theposterior cerebral lobes must have projectedconsiderably beyond the cerebellum ; thusshowing a similarity to certain Australianskulls. The conclusions of Prof. Huxley are :First, that the extraordinary form of the skull is due to a natural con-formation, hitherto not known to exist even in the most barbarous races ;secondly, that it belongs to a period antecedent to the time of the Celts inGermany, and was in all probabil
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