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 176 diameters were respectively 193 and 141 millimetres. (C.A.P., 1900, p. 133.)

Sipka Jaw.

A fragment of a lower human jaw, discovered in the cave of Sipka (Moravia), has been published by Dr Karl Maska in 1881. It came from the lower portion of stratified debris, the upper of which contained remains of the mammoth, reindeer, woolly rhinoceros, hyæna, etc., associated with rude implements of quartzite. The dentition was so peculiar that M. Schaaffhausen regarded it as the jaw of a child of a giant pithecoid, while Professor Virchow looked upon it as that of an ordinary adult without any simian characters. (Le Préhistorique, p. 263.)

Hitman Remains at Krapina.

Krapina is a village of North Croatia, on the bank of the Krapinica (an affluent of the Drave), which in Quaternary

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FIG. 57. Section of the Rock-shelter of Krapina.

times flowed 25 metres higher than at present. A cul-de-sac on the bank of the stream, which was then subject to inundations, was frequented by Palæolithic races of the vicinity. Ultimately the station became completely filled up by the refuse of human occupation, the débris of crumbling rocks, and intercalated beds of fluviatile deposits (Fig. 57). It was