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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Reconstruction of Eoanthropus dawsoni. 



E. B. Wilson, professor of zoology at 

 Columbia University. So long as the 

 association is able to select presidents 

 such as these, it bears witness to the 

 fact that this country possesses men 

 who unite scientific genius with per- 

 sonal distinction. The next convoca- 

 tion-week meeting will be at Atlanta; 

 two years hence Philadelphia is pro- 

 posed. 



AN EXTINCT SPECIES OF MAN 

 An anthropological discovery, rival- 

 ling in importance the discovery of 

 Pithecanthropus erectus in Java by 

 Dr. Du Bois twenty years ago, was 

 communicated to the London Geolog- 

 ical Society last month by Mr. Charles 

 Dawson and Dr. A. S. Woodward, the 

 keeper of the Geological Department 

 of the British Museum. It appears 



