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Rh 6. Homo heidelhergensis.—Professor Schoetensack of Heidelberg has lately described a human mandible found at a depth of twenty-four metres from the surface, in ancient fluviatile deposits of the river Neckar, situated at a place called Mauer, ten kilometres south-east of the town of Heidelberg. Along with it, in the same bed, bones of the following animals were found: stag, elk (Alces latifrons), cave-lion, horse (Equus stenonis?). Rhinoceros etruscus, and Elephas antiguus. The bones of the last named were very abundant, and among them (quite close to a mandible) lay the human jaw. Shells similar to those of the Cromer forest beds were also found in the same deposits.

The Heidelberg mandible is the only bone of this skeleton known, and, in some respects, it is the most simian-like hitherto come to