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investigations into the past history of mankind may be profitably conducted, both of which start from the attainment of the erect attitude—one dealing with the fossil remains of past races, and the other with their handicraft

Fig. 1.—Profile of Lower Jaws. (After Gaudry.)

 

1. Chin of a modern Frenchman

 

2. That of a young man from Grotte des Enfants Mentone—Race de Grimaldi.

 

3. Lower jaw of a fossil monkey (Dryopithecus).

products. The evidential materials to be gathered from these different sources consist, in the one case of some fragments of a few skeletons of former races, which, by some fortuitous circumstances, have to this day resisted the disintegrating forces of nature;