62 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL.83 



The following gives an abstract of Dr. Weinert's measurements 

 of the skullcap, contrasted with those of Dubois. 



DUBOIS' AND WEINERT'S MEASUREMENTS OF THE 

 PITHECANTHROPUS SKULLCAP 



Dubois (1924) Wienert ^ (1928) 



Length max., deduced 18.4 cm. 18.3 cm. 



Length max., as obtained on the damaged 



specimen 18.05 18.05 



Length, from ophryon .... 1 7.0 



Breadth 13. i 13.0 



Cranial index 71.2 7i-04 



Calvarial height (height max. above the 



glabella-inion line) 6.1 6.1 



Basion-bregma height, estimated .... 10.5 



Diam. frontal min., now (8.7) 8.5 



Diam. frontal min., undamaged was prob- 

 ably 9.1 



External orbital facial breadth, estimated .. . 11.5 



Fronto-biorbital index (percental relation 

 last two diams.) approx yg.o 



Nearest approach of temporal lines, prob- 

 ably 8.5 



Sagittal arc-length : 



Frontal part lo.o lo.o 



Parietal 9.0 9.1 



Occipital, upper part 4.5 4.6 



Occipital, whole, estimated .... 10.3 



Fronto-parietal index go.o 



Endocranial length max.: R. 15.5 15.4 



L. 15-3 15.3 



Breadth max 12.4 12.5 



Index 80.0 81.1/ 



Height max. (above the line of max. 



transverse diam. ) 5.8 5..7 



Height (total, ob-ba), estimated .... lo.o 



Cranial capacity, present conclusion, approx. 900 cc. 1,000 cc. 



Brain weight, approx .... 870-920 gm. 



^ Many additional measurements are given by Weinert, toe. cit., pp. 485 et scq. 



THE " SECOND PITHECANTHROPUS 



While in Soerabaia, in 1925, the writer gave a lecture at which 

 he called attention to the present conditions at Trinil. Attending the 

 lecture among others was Dr. Heberlein, a Government physician. 

 In September of the following year the Associated Press announced 



