"In 1856 quarrymen working in the Neanderthal between Düsseldorf and Elberfeld unearthed a number of bones in a limestone groot. Part of a skull and some long bones eventually reached Johann Carl Fuhlrott, a schoolmaster at the collge in Elberfeld. He immediately recognized the importance of the find, but was not able to save any more bones from what was, in all probability, a whole skeleton. He sent a cast of the cranium to Schaaffhausen at Bonn University, who was at once convinced that they were human, and that the extraordinary skull was not a phathological specimen but had belonged to a normal individual of some ancient race of man which differed considerably from all modern races. This opinion Fuhlrott presented early in 1857 to the Natural History Society in Bonn, and later in the same year he compiled a fuller account of the find prepared in conjunction with Schaaffhausen. 'Human Remains from a Grotto in Düsselthal.' -- PMM 342.