884 MAN 



3. The freeing of the hand for manual perfornuinees and the ineeption 

 of unidcxterity 



4. The expansion of visual and auditory sensibility 

 j. The development of speech 



6. The establishment of human personality and the higher psychic 

 faculties. 



The Bkain of the Dawn Man of Piltdown, Eoanthropus 



Dawsom 



The fossilized remnants of the Dawn man's skull are more fragmentary 

 than m the case of the Javan ape-man. It was therefore necessary to give 

 each fragment its proper place in reconstructing the skull of this long extinct 

 race of men. These Piltdown cranial fragments include: 



1. The left and part of the right parietal bone 



2. The left temporal bone in its scjuamous, petrous and mastoid portions 



3. A large part of the left half of the frontal squamosa 



4. About two-thirds of the occipital bone 



5. The right half of the mandible. 



The first reconstruction of the Piltdown skull was presented to the 

 Geological Society in London in Decembti-, M)12, [)y Sir. A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, of the British Museum and Mr. Charles Dawson, a lawyer, who had 

 made the original discovery of the fossil. The annoLincement of this remark- 

 able find deeply stirred the interest of scientific circles. An unknow n ])hase of 

 early human existence was about to be revealed. The reconstructed skull a.s 

 pieced together by Dr. Woodward impressed all who saw it as a strange blend 

 of man and ape. It seemed that the missing link for \\ hich the early followers 

 of Darwin had arduously searched was at length forthcoming. But whether 

 this was tlu' long sought missing form or not, the Piltdown strata in the 

 Wcald of Sussex, not many miles from the English Channel, told ol a race 



