. THE NEW RECOXSTRICTION OF THE ^' .SKULL- one another in a remarkable degree. From these reconstructions it appeared that the skull was low but of a remarkable breadth, being, in fact, broader than any other known skull ; its capacity was low —under 1,300 cubic centimetres, which is considerably below the average of modern man. It was, however, typically human. In the case of the lower jaw there was a difference. Without going into technical details, it may be said that in the absence of chin, tlie character and disposition of the teeth, and in general conformation, it was distinctly
. THE NEW RECOXSTRICTION OF THE ^' .SKULL- one another in a remarkable degree. From these reconstructions it appeared that the skull was low but of a remarkable breadth, being, in fact, broader than any other known skull ; its capacity was low —under 1,300 cubic centimetres, which is considerably below the average of modern man. It was, however, typically human. In the case of the lower jaw there was a difference. Without going into technical details, it may be said that in the absence of chin, tlie character and disposition of the teeth, and in general conformation, it was distinctly simian, and might have belonged to an extinct form of chimpanzee. So great was the discrepancy that one school, which has received strong support in the United States, boldly declared that the fragments of the cranium and the jawbone were not related, but belonged to two indi- viduals, of which one was human and the other an anthropoid. \Miile this is not impossible, the proba- bility, in view of the circumstances, is against this close association of the remains of man and anthro- poid ; but the undoubted of the typically human cranium and the simian jaw has proved a serious stumbling block to manv anatomists of note. The accuracy of the reconstruction has accordingly been called in question. Fresh light has been thrown on this question by the remarkable contribution to the subject to which allusion was made at the beginning of this note. A fresh reconstruction of the skull has been made by Professors Elliot Smith and Hunter. Their object was to obtain an endocranial cast, a cast of the inside of the skull, to form one of a continuous series of endocranial casts ranging from the gorilla to the highest type of modern man, in this case represented by Dean Swift. For their purpose a reconstruction of the skull was necessary, and it was determined to make this reconstruction afresh. To describe the method followed in full would involve great technical detail, which
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