The Kingdom of ManLankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
History
The Kingdom of Man
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
African trypanosomiasis; Human beings; Science -- History
Photographs of a front view of the two skulls shewn in profile
in the frontispiece, taken so as to shew the breadth of the
‘forehead’ or prefrontal area, which is seen to be very much
greater in the Greek skull (Fig. 2) than in the Javanese
_Pithecanthropus_ (Fig. 1). The prefrontal area is marked out
by a black dotted line, the outline of a plane (the prefrontal
plane) which is at right angles to the sagittal plane and passes
through the meeting point of the frontal with the two parietal
bones above; whilst below it passes through the median point
called ‘ophryon.’ The plane of the picture is parallel with this
prefrontal plane. The white dotted line gives the breadth of
the boss-like prefrontal area. It is identical in position with
the line _d_ in the side view of the same skulls given in the
frontispiece. The black dotted line is identical in position with
the line A C in those figures. The two specimens are equally
reduced in the photograph. (Original).]
[Illustration: FIG. 3.
Photographs of eight Eoliths of one and the same shape, namely,
with a chipped or worked tooth-like prominence, rendering the
flint fit for use as a ‘borer’--photographed of half the actual
size (linear measurement) from specimens found near Ightham,
Kent, in the high-level gravel--which form part of the Prestwich
collection in the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London.
Many others of the same shape have been found in the same
locality. These and the trinacrial implements photographed in
Fig. 4 are far older than the oval and leaf-shaped ‘palæoliths’
of the low-lying gravels of the valleys of the Thames, Somme, and
other rivers. (Original).]
[Illustration: FIG. 4.
Photographs of six Eoliths of the ‘shoulder-of-mutton’ or
‘trinacrial’ type--from the same locality and collection as those
shewn in Fig. 3. The photographs are of half the length of the
actual specimens. A considerable number of worked flints of this
peculiar shape have been found in the same locality. Possibly
their shape enabled the primitive men who ‘chipped’ and used them
to attach them by thongs to a stick or club. The descriptive term
‘trinacrial’ is suggested by me for these flints in allusion to
the form of the island of Sicily which they resemble. (Original).]
9. THE ENLARGED BRAIN.
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