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Without criticising this important paper in any detail, it 

 may be remarked that since the most ancient known ape, the 

 Oligocene Propliopithecus, possessed a short symphysis, this is 

 evidently merely a primitive feature, which may well have 

 been secondarily acquired by H. sapiens, just as Dr. Pilgrim 

 thinks it was secondarily acquired by H. neandertalensis , and 

 the line to H. sapiens may well have travelled further with 

 the other Hominidae and even with the apes than he believes. 

 The reasons for including Sivapithecus in the Hominidae do 

 not appear very strong. 



The above paper should be read in conjunction with one by 

 Dr. A. S. Woodward on a Spanish specimen of Dryopithecus 

 fontani (Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 70, 



p. 316, 1914). 



Of the short articles which appear in Man for the 

 second quarter of the present year, perhaps one by Prof. 

 Giuffrida-Ruggeri in the April number, entitled " Were the 

 Pre-Dynastic Egyptians Libyans or Ethiopians ? " will excite 

 most general interest ; and a further article on the same subject 

 by Prof. G. Elliot Smith appears in the May number. The 

 latter number also contains an " Ethnographical Sketch of 

 Fiji," by A. M. Hocart, which should prove very useful to any- 

 one making an anthropological study of those islands. 



