The supraciliary prominences or brow-ridges (on each side of 'a', Fig.
22) are well, but not excessively, developed, and are separated by a
median depression. Their principal elevation is disposed so obliquely
that I judge them to be due to large frontal sinuses.

If a line joining the glabella and the occipital protuberance ('a', 'b',
Fig. 22) be made horizontal, no part of the occipital region projects
more than 1/10th of an inch behind the posterior extremity of that
line, and the upper edge of the auditory foramen ('c') is almost in
contact with a line drawn parallel with this upon the outer surface of
the skull.

A transverse line drawn from one auditory foramen to the other
traverses, as usual, the forepart of the occipital foramen. The
capacity of the interior of this fragmentary skull has not been
ascertained.

The history of the Human remains from the cavern in the Neanderthal may
best be given in the words of their original describer, Dr
Schaaffhausen*, as translated by Mr. Busk.

[footnote] *ON THE CRANIA OF THE MOST ANCIENT RACES OF MAN.
By Professor D. Schaaffhausen, of Bonn. (From Muller's
'Archiv'., 1858, pp. 453.) With Remarks, and original
Figures, taken from a Cast of the Neanderthal Cranium. By
George Busk, F.R.S., etc. 'Natural History Review'. April,
1861.

"In the early part of the year 1857, a human skeleton was discovered in