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THE RISE OF MAN. 



gests itself that the creature to whom these interesting rel- 

 ics belong became the victim of a volcanic eruption, yet 

 he was saved to posterity in the same way as the cities of 

 Pompeii and Herculaneum. When the rain water carried 

 away the volcanic dust it scattered and took with it some 

 of the bones. We might further mention that they are 

 all in a petrified condition and nothing of the originally 

 organic substance is left. There in the midst of tertiary 



THE KRAPINA CAVE IN CROATIA. 

 ( Weltall und Menschheit, II, 23.) 



drift Professor Du Bois came quite unexpectedly upon a 

 cranium which in form is midway between the human and 

 Simian skulls. At a distance of about twenty-five metres 

 he found a human femur which in addition to its unusual 

 straightness shows a diseased growth, the latter being an 

 evidence of an injury received during lifetime and partly 

 healed. There was also nearby a molar tooth unequivo- 



