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BORREBY SKULL.
CHAP. V.

'To prevent the possibility of reasoning in a vicious circle, however, I thought it would be well to endeavour to ascertain what amount of cranial variation is to be found in a pure race at the present

Fig. 5

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Skull associated with ground flint implements, from a tumulus at Borreby in Denmark, after a camera lucida drawing by Mr. Gr. Busk, F.R.S. The thick dark line indicates so much of the skull as corresponds with the fragment from the Neanderthal.

a Superciliary ridge. b Coronal suture.

c The apex of the lambdoidal suture. d The occipital protuberance.

e The auditory foramen.