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ANTHROPOLOGY

hyæna, serval, Felis caffer, grizzly bear, Rhinoceros hemitœchus, and African elephant. The presence of the latter in the south of Spain is another proof, as pointed out by Dr Falconer, that the two continents were formerly united. None of the Arctic fauna— mammoth, reindeer, or woolly rhinoceros— was represented in these caves. The human skulls were all much broken, but so far as could be determined from their fragmentary con-

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FIG. 60. Side and front views of the Gibraltar Skull. (After Professor Sollas.)

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dition they were all dolichocephalic and orthognathous. The cast of one of the Gibraltar skulls, said to have been "excavated from brecciated talus behind Forbes battery under the north front of the Rock of Gibraltar," is exhibited in the Natural History Museum at Kensington. It is figured by Quaterfages (Hommes fossiles, etc., p. 61) under the title of Crane de Forbes-Quarry (Gibraltar), as an illustration of the Race de Canstadt. Judging from the cast and its various published outlines (Fig. 60), this Gibraltar man must have been the most simian in