Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . inedrawn perpendicular to the hinder extremity of theglabello-occipital line, but even, in some cases, begins toshelve away from it, forAvards, almost immediately. Inconsequence of this circumstance, the parts of the oc-cipital bone which lie above and below the tuberositymake a much more acute angle with one another than isusual, whereby the hinder part of the base of the skulLappears obliquely truncated. Many Australian skulls * See Dr. D. Wilsons valuable paper On the supposed prev-alence of one Cranial Type throughout the American A
Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . inedrawn perpendicular to the hinder extremity of theglabello-occipital line, but even, in some cases, begins toshelve away from it, forAvards, almost immediately. Inconsequence of this circumstance, the parts of the oc-cipital bone which lie above and below the tuberositymake a much more acute angle with one another than isusual, whereby the hinder part of the base of the skulLappears obliquely truncated. Many Australian skulls * See Dr. D. Wilsons valuable paper On the supposed prev-alence of one Cranial Type throughout the American Abori^gines.—Canadian Journal, Vol, II., 1857. ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. 171 have a considerable height, quite equal to that of theaverage of any other race, but there are others in whichthe cranial roof becomes remarkably depressed, theskull, at the same time, elongating so much that, prob-ably, its capacity is not diminished. The majorityof skulls possessing these characters, which I have seen,are from the neighbourhood of Port Adelaide in South. Fig. 31.—An Australian skull from Western Port, in theMuseum of the Royal College of Surgeons, with the contourof the Neanderthal skull. Both reduced to one-third thenatural size. Australia, and have been used by the natives as watervessels; to which end the face has been knocked away,and a string passed through the vacuity and the occipitalforamen, so that the skull was suspended by the greaterpart of its basis. Fig. 31 represents the contour of a skull of this kindfrom Western Port, with the jaw attached, and of the 172 MANS PLACE IN NATURE. i^eanderthal skull, both reduced to one-third of the sizeof nature. A small additional amount of flattening andlengthening, with a corresponding increase of thesupraciiiarj ridge, would convert the Australian braincase into a form identical with that of the aberrantfossil. And now, to return to the fossil skulls, and to therank which they occupy among, or beyond, these existingvarieties
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