These inhabitants of Palestine between 8,000 and 10,000 B. C., must, it would seem, have been cannibals and have regarded brains as a particular delicacy, for there are several examples of skulls from which a rectangular fragment had been chopped so as to render possible the removal of the interior, a special Representative writes to-day in the “Morning Post”, reporting a visit he has paid to the Museum of the” Royal College of Surgeons in Linodln’s Inn Fields, where Sir Arthur Keith, former President of the British Association, who is Conservator of the Museum, and Hunterian Professor at the College, and Lord Moynihan, the President of the Society should him the collection of bones and skeletons in the Museum collected from all ages and countries.
The remark is made in connection with a number of skulls shown him by Sir Arthur Koith, which were recently excavated by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem on Mount Carmel and other sites. Holding one beside his own head he demonstrated what a formidable appearance the original must have possessed.
In scientific value, Lord Moynihan claimed, the collections at the Museum are the equal of the next six collections of the kind in the world put together.
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