. Evidence as to man's place in nature . Malay skulls, estimated bywater, equalled 36, 33 ounces, whilst in the diminutive Hin-doos it falls to as little as 27 ounces. After comparing the Neanderthal cranium with manyothers, ancient and modern. Professor Schaaffhausen con-eludes thus:— But the human bones and cranium from the Nean-derthal exceed all the rest in those peculiarities of confor-mation which lead to the conclusion of their belonging toa barbarous and savage race. Whether the cavern in whichthey were found, unaccompanied with any trace of humanart, were the place of their interment,
. Evidence as to man's place in nature . Malay skulls, estimated bywater, equalled 36, 33 ounces, whilst in the diminutive Hin-doos it falls to as little as 27 ounces. After comparing the Neanderthal cranium with manyothers, ancient and modern. Professor Schaaffhausen con-eludes thus:— But the human bones and cranium from the Nean-derthal exceed all the rest in those peculiarities of confor-mation which lead to the conclusion of their belonging toa barbarous and savage race. Whether the cavern in whichthey were found, unaccompanied with any trace of humanart, were the place of their interment, or whether, like thebones of extinct animals elsewhere, they had been washedinto it, they may still be regarded as the most ancientmemorial of the early inhabitants of Europe. Mr. Busk, the translator of Dr. SchaafFhausens paper,has enabled us to form a very vivid conception of the de-graded character of the Neanderthal skull, by placing sideby side with its outline, that of the skull of a Chimpanzee,drawn to the same absolute -j^asssj^ ~=»^^ .%}^^ Fig. 25.—The skull from the Neanderthal cavern. A. side, B. front, andC. top view. One half the natural size. The outlines from camera lucidadrawings, one haf the natural size, by Mr. Busk : the details from the cast andfrom Dr. Fuhlrotts photographs, a glabella; h occipital protuberance; d lamb-doidal suture. 140 Some time after the publication of the translation of Pro-fessor SchaaflFliausens Memoir, I was led to study the castof the Neanderthal cranium with more attention than I hadpreviously bestowed upon it, in consequence of wishing tosupply Sir Charles Lyell with a diagram, exhibiting thespecial peculiarities of this skull, as compared with other hu-man skulls. In order to do this it was necessary to identify,with precision, those points in the skulls compared whichcorresponded anatomically. Of these points, the glabella wasobvious enough; but when I had distinguished another,defined by the occipital protuberance
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