WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EAJfLY MAN HRDLICKA 



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found there, in that and the following year, among a great number of remains of 

 other vertebrates, bones and teeth of a great man-like mammal, which I have 

 named Pithecanthropus erectus, considering it as a link connecting together 



Apes and Man 



Among hundreds of other skeleton remains, in the lapilli bed on the left bank 

 of the river, the third molar tooth was first found in September ; then, the hole 

 having been enlarged, the cranium a month later, at about i meter distant from 

 the former, but in the very same level of that bed. The species of mammals, 

 of which remains were found in the same bed, are, for the greater part at least. 



Fig. 7. — Ossiferous strata in which the Pithecanthropus bones were dis- 

 covered. B, soft sandstone ; C, lapilli stratum ; D, level at which the skeletal 

 remains were found ; E, conglomerate ; F, argillaceous layer ; G, marine breccia ; 

 H, wet-season level of the river ; I, dry-season level of the river. 



extinct ones, and almost certainly none of them are at present living in Java. 

 Among these remains we find a great number of the above-mentioned small 

 species of Cerznis, which certainly is not extant in the Malayan isles. Also many 

 bones of Stegodon were found. One or two Bubaliis species seem to be identical 

 with Siwalik species ; a Boselaphus undoubtedly differs from the known species, 

 living and fossil. Further on there were found the extinct genus Lcptobos, the 

 genera Rhinoceros, Sns, Felis, Hyaena, and others; a Garial and a Crocodile, 

 differing little from the e.xisting species in India, but which cannot be classed 

 among them. 



Of the animals found in the same strata in other places, the most interesting 

 species are a gigantic Pangolin (Manis), three times as large as the existing 



