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Javanese species, and a Hippopotamus belonging to an extinct Siwalik subgenus. 

 Further a Tapir and an Elephas. 



The work having been brought to an end that year on account of the setting 

 in of the rainy season, it was taken up again at the beginning of the dry season 

 in May, 1892. A new cutting was now made in the left rocky bank, which 

 comprised the still unfinished part of the old excavation. Thereby bones were 

 again found in great numljers, especially in the deeper beds ; and among these, 

 again in the same level of the lapilli bed, which had contained the skull-cap and 

 the molar tooth, the left femur was found in August, at a distance of about 

 15 meters from the former; and at last, in October, a second molar, at a distance 

 of 3 meters at the most from the place where the skull-cap was discovered, and 

 in the direction of the place where the femur had been dug out. This tooth I did 

 not describe, because I only found it later among a collection of teeth derived 

 from the place stated above. 



As a matter of fact at the time the first of the just mentioned 

 remains were discovered, Dulx)is was already in possession of a 

 fragment of an old lower jaw found early in 1890 in the fossiliferous 

 layers of the Kendeng formation at one of the tributaries of the 

 Bengawan river. 



The total Dubois finds eventually attributed by him to the Pithe- 

 canthropus, and still in his possession, comprise the just mentioned 

 lower jaw, the 1891-93 Trinil finds of two molar teeth, a skull-cap and 

 a femur, and another tooth, a premolar, discovered in the Trinil de- 

 posits several years later. 



These remains are all of such importance that they deserve separate 

 and detailed attention. 



THE FIRST find: THE LOWER JAW 



The history of the Dubois find as thus far given in scientific 

 literature is more or less incomplete. The details, as obtainable from 

 the original sources, were as follows : 



The first note of importance is found in the report for the first 

 quarter of 1890.* Dr. Dubois announces that he had discovered, on 

 November 24, 1890, in the so-called Kendeng deposits of the water- 

 shed of the Bengawan river, among typical remains of the old fauna 

 and in the same sandstone-like andesite tufa, a human fossil, consisting 

 of a fragment of a lower jaw, with the alveoli of the canine and the 

 first and second premolars. The specimen leaves no doubt, he states, 

 as to its human derivation. Its chin may have been even less prominent 

 than that in the diluvial European jaws of LaNaulette or Sipka and 

 possesses a remarkable flattening as well as hollowing out for the 



' Verslag v. h. Mijnwezen, Batavia, pp. 14-15, 1891. See also Natuurk. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie, Vol. 51, p. 95, 1892. 



