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considered the folding of the enamel with some particulars as to the 

 cusps to be somewhat chimpanzee-like, but nevertheless identified the 

 tooth as human. Schwalbe classed it with the Neanderthal remains.' 

 For Duckworth,^ it was difficult to decide whether it was a human 

 tooth or the tooth of a pithecoid precursor of man. Miller, and with 

 him, Gregory, regard the tooth as belonging to a Pleistocene chimpan- 

 zee (Pan vetus, Miller).'' For Marcellin Boule, " it is possible that it 

 may have belonged to a man related to the Neanderthal type." ' 



Today, after additional study of the tooth, G. S. Miller, Jr., in- 

 forms the writer that he considers his earlier identification of the 

 tooth as erroneous, regarding it now as a human tooth with some 

 primitive characters. In the opinion of the writer, who saw the 

 original in 1923, the tooth is clearly of a human type, though it is 

 relatively slightly narrower than any human Mi, ancient or recent, 

 that he has seen so far." 



The atypical Taubach industry which has been referred by 

 different authors tO' everything from Chellean to Mousterian, is now 

 regarded as representing most probably the warm or older Mousterian 

 and as closely allied to the Micoque culture.' 



THE PLEISTOCENE MAN OF JERSEY (ENGLAND) 



In 1910 Messrs. Nicolle and Sinel, of the Island of Jersey, gave 

 notice in Man, and in a bulletin of the Jersey Society,^ of the dis- 

 covery, in an old cave on the Island of Jersey, of 13 highly interesting 

 human teeth, belonging to a man of the Mousterian period. The 

 principal details of the find, according to the clear account presented 

 by the two authors and confirmed later by the writer's observations on 

 the spot, are as follows : 



The cave where the ancient human remains were found is known 

 as La Cotte, or La Cotte de St. Brelade, and is situated in a great 



* Die Vorgeschichte des Menschen, 1904. 



° Prehistoric Man, p. 23, Cambridge, 1912. 



^ Gregory, W. K., Studies on the Evolution of Primates. Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Vol. 35, 1916. 



* Fossil Men, p. 146, 1923. 



* Hrdlicka, A., Variation in the Dimensions of Lower Molars in Man and 

 Anthropoid Apes. Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 423-438, 1923. 



° Werth, E., Der fossile Mensch, Vol. 2, p. 512, 1927. See also, Schmidt, R. R., 

 Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands, Stuttgart, 1912. 



' Nicolle, E. T., and Sinel, J., Report on the exploration of the palaeolithic 

 cave dwelling known as La Cotte, St. Brelade, Jersey. Man, Vol. 10, No. 102, 

 pp. 185-188, 1910. Reprinted in 36" Bulletin de la Societe Jersiaise, p. 69, 

 Jersey. 



