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interpretation in a purely provisory and tentative sense, and 

 does not dogmatize after the fashion of Osbom and Gregory. 

 After the year 1896, Dubois appears to have withdrawn the 

 relics of Pithecanthropus from further inspection on the part 

 of scientific men, and to have kept them securely locked up 

 in his safe at Haarlem, Holland. (Of. Science, June 15, 1923, 

 suppl. VIII.) Since all existing casts of the skull-cap of Pithe- 

 canthropus are inaccurate, according to the measurements 

 originally given by Dubois, anthropologists were anxious to 

 have access to bones, in order to verify his figures and to 

 obtain better casts. (Of. Hrdlicka, Smithson. Inst. Rpt. for 

 1913, p. 498.) His obstinate refusal, therefore, to place 

 the Javanese remains at the disposal of scientists was bitterly 

 resented by the latter. Some of them accused him of having 

 become "reactionary" and "orthodox" in his later years, and 

 others went so far as to impugn his good faith in the matter 

 of the discovery. (Cf. W. H. Ballou's article. North American 

 Review, April, 1922.) A writer in Science says: "It has been 

 rumored that he was influenced by religious bigotry" and re- 

 fers to the bones as a "skeleton in the closet." (Cf. loc. cit.) 

 Dubois' own explanation, however, was that he wished to 

 publish his own finds first. Recently, he seems to have yielded 

 to pressure in the matter, since he permitted Hrdlicka, Mc- 

 Gregor, and others to examine the fragments of Pithecanthro- 

 pus. (Cf. Science, Aug. 17, 1923, Suppl. VIII.) Meanwhile, 

 too, his opinion has changed with reference to these 

 bones, which he now regards as the remains of a large 

 ape of the hylobatic type, and not of a form intermediate 

 between men and apes. This opinion is, in all likelihood, the 

 correct one. 



(2) The Heidelberg Man: In a quarry near Mauer in the 

 Elsenz Valley, Germany, on Oct. 21, 1907, a workman en- 

 gaged in excavating drove his shovel into a fossilized human 

 jaw, severing it into two pieces. Herr Joseph Rosch, the 

 owner of the quarry, immediately telegraphed the news of the 

 find to Prof. Otto Schoetensack of the neighboring University 



