On a Fossil Human Skull from Lagoa Santa, BrazilAuthor(s): Soren HansenSource: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 17(1888), p. 43Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2841667 .

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S. HANSEN.-Fossil Human Skttll from Lagoa Santa. 43

The following paper was then read:-

On a FOSSIL HUMAN SKULL from LAGOA SANTA, BRAZIL.

By SOREN HANSEN.

Abstract. THE author gives good reason for believing that the skull in question, now in the Geological Department of the Natural History Section of the British Museum, having fornied part of a collection purchased in 1844 fromn M. Chaussen, was originally in the possessiorf of Lund, and is one of a large series obtained by that explorer in the cave known as Lapa di Lagoa di Sumadouro, the remainder of which are in the Copenhagen Museum. As the contents of this cave are much mixed, the age of any individual specimen found in it can not be deter- mined with precision, but the author believes that this skull was contemporaneous with the now extinct mammalian fauna of the country. It has the same elongated form and general characters of the other Lagoa Santa skulls, characters which are repeated in the Botokudos, more nearly than in any other existing race.

MARCH 8TH, 1887.

FRANcIs GALTON, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair.

The Minutes of the last ordinary meeting were read and sigiled.

The following presents were announced, and thanks voted to the respective donors:-

FOR THE LIBRARY.

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From the GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF CANADA.- Annual Report, 1885.

From the ESSEX FIELD CLUB.- Transactions. Vol. iv, Part 2. - The Essex Naturalist. Nos. 1, 2.

From the ASSoCIATIoN.-Journal of the East India Association. Vol. xix, No. 2.

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