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THE SECOND TOOTH 



No original report on the second molar attributed to the Pithe- 

 canthropus was located. It is not mentioned in the first accounts. 

 However in his report for the fourth quarter of 1892 {op. cit., 1893, 

 pp. 11-12) Dr. Dubois relates that the excavations at the Trinil site, 

 where were discovered the remains of the " remarkable anthropoid," 

 were continued till the middle of November, when rains made further 

 work impossible. Among the fossils recovered was also a molar tooth 

 " that probably belonged to a Cynocephalus." This may have been 

 the tooth in question, for in 1895-1896 Dr. Dubois writes* that the 

 second Trinil molar was discovered in October of 1892 at a distance 

 of three meters (9.8 feet) from the original position of the skullcap 

 and in the direction of the resting place of the femur. 



THE THIRD TOOTH 



The discovery of this tooth was made known by Dr. Dubois, 

 through a communication read by Duckworth, at the General Meeting 

 of the Fourth International Congress of Zoology, Cambridge, August 

 26, 1898. An account of this communication in the Journ. Anat. & 

 Physiol., 1899, Vol. 33, 273, reads as follows: 



The speaker [E. Dubois] announced the discovery, during the past year 

 [apparently therefore 1898], of another tooth referable to Pithecanthropus 

 erectus, in further excavations at Trinil in Java, made under the speaker's direc- 

 tion. This tooth is remarkable as being the second left lower premolar, the 

 tooth already found having belonged to the upper jaw. The fact that it was 

 discovered in that part of the sandstone formation immediately adjoining the 

 site of the other remains of Pithecanthropus erectus affords additional argument 

 in favor of the individual identity of origin of all. 



LATER EXCAVATIONS AND STUDIES 



With the season of 1893 the excavations at Trinil came to an end ; 

 1894 was given by Dubois to the study of the specimens and the 

 publication of his important report; early in 1895 he made a trip 

 to India and the Siwaliks, for comparative studies ; during 1894-95 

 his large paleontological collections were sent to the Rijks Museum 



* Dubois, E., On Pithecanthropus erectus: A Transitional Form between 

 Man and Apes. Trans. Roy. Dubl. Soc, Vol. 6, Pt. i, 1896; also under same 

 title, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., Vol. 25, p. 242, 1896. See also C. R. III. Congr. Zool., 

 Leyden, pp. 254-255, 1896. 



