Evening star., 1903-08-01

SNns: tsas:,aas. that are wYrth more than all the
u. s same . | level. but but th1ss fest away ' the he
roof OF q skall Nine fest farther below
there was another tooth. And at last. thir-
ty.ax test bsyond that ind. there was a
It II plain what had been the destroyer.
The sksleton.sor perhaps the corpse. had
fallen Into tha river. Gradually the current
had torn It apart and carried the frag-
remained fast in int the % mud an and had been
baked into stone with that mud in the
course OF Tins.
But fortunately the four parts that were
tnos preserved are most useful.
The skull points Enthusiastically to the
gibbon. But its size is beyond that of the
ape After careful cleansing and meas
ur1ng of Its capacity Dubois estima tes
that the brain contained in it occupied
from Soo to $50 cubic centimeters. Under
no circumstances could it have been more
than thousand.
The greatest measure Of male gorilla s
brain in special case was Cos cubic cent?
meters. In general the gorilla brain is 4aS
In the male and little less for the female.
NO o. other man-like ape equals the gorilla
The rfddle-thing of Java. therefore, had
a brain far beyond that OF all man-like
apes.
In man, the average capacity of the skull
may be stated as 40 cubic centimeters
for the European
Therefore, in the point of brain. the crea-
ture or Java was neither g1bbon nor
man. 1t Is middle thfng-5ust what
science looked for when speaking of the
missing link.
The thigh proves that the creature was
at least third larger than all fossil or
living gibbon apes. The Java creature was
fully as large as the average man.
The teeth. belonging to the upper Jaw
show features belonging to both ape and
man.
The crown is entirely that Of man: the
The last witness Is the upper thigh.
1t gives the most startling testimony.
1t is the upper thigh of thing that
The upright walk of man has stamped
itself splendidiy into his skeleton. Mans
upper thigh is almost entirely straight
Compare with this the skeleton OF a gorilla
and you will find that the upper thigh is
not only short and thick but curved and
followed toward the inside.
The bone of Java is bent little but not
normal man: far different from the great
curvature OF the gorilla's thigh.
It Walked Like a Man.
There is no doubt that this thing, what
ever It was. walked like man.
Plainly. gibbon and man were linked In
the thing. And 1t was found In South
Asia. where the gibbons still live.
Pithecanthropus erectus gives us the be-
"a
lems as did the famous reptile-bird. archae-
opteryx, of Solenhofen, in whose case the
really puzzling questions arose long after
the question as to what 1t was had been
settled.
For instance, we must still ascertain ex-
actly what is the age of the deposits IN
which the ape-man was found. 1t may be
that we shall find them to be of a period
from which we already possess genuine
human skulls found in other localities.
from the end of the tertiary period to the
earliest glacial period. And certain E,-
ropean finds of undoubted human bones
take US back as far as that glacial period.
Should 1t be ascertained that pithecan-
thropus and the human remains Of Europe
glacial time are cOntempOraneous, IA great
field of conjecture and research will have
been opened. 1t would appear then that
the pithecanthropH of Java were simply
isolated survivors,.
Should it be proved. on the contrary. that
the JavaneSe deposits date back into the
tertiary period say the tertiary pliOcene,
thus placing the beginning OF human man
into eastern Asia. we would have the prob
lem before us of how the finished product,
man, could have wandered and spread
soon thereafter from the Sunda Straits to
France on one side and to South America
on the other.
Meantime men are digging busily in Java
for complete or measurably complete skel-