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exact chronological and anthropological ix)sitioii of the finds remains 

 to be determined. As to age, the inclination was at first to place the 

 remains in the Tertiary. They are now regarded as earlier Quater- 

 nary. Possibly even this may be subject to revision. 



Professor Black's illustration of the adult jaw, and above all the very 

 clear and satisfactory full-size photographs of the skull, make possi- 

 ble the formation of some fairly definite morphological opinions. The 

 lower jaw resembles very closely No. " g " of Krapina, and the 

 plainly diminished third molar suggests a moderate rather than 

 extreme antiquity. The skull is clearly neanderthaloid. It appears to 

 represent no distinct genus, species, or even a pronounced variety. 

 And it is not like the lowest type of the Neanderthaler, but corre- 

 sponds rather to the better developed specimens of that class, such as 

 the Galilee skull. How far these still necessarily provisional views 

 may be substantiated, remains to be seen. Even a later Neanderthaler 

 in China would, however, be a discovery of much interest as well as 

 importance. 



Grateful acknowledgments are hereby given to Professor Black 

 for his most generous attitude in this matter and for his exceedingly 

 valuable assistance. 



Note. — While this is about to be issued, Professor Black most kindly sends 

 to the writer a series of very valuable photographs of the specimen as finally 

 disengaged. The two main views are here reproduced. They greatly strengthen 

 the impression of the specimens as expressed above. Had the skull been found 

 in Europe or in Asia Minor, it could hardly be taken by any expert student of 

 the subject as anything else than Neanderthaler. 



LITERATURE 



Black, Davidson. The lower molar hominid tooth from the Chou Kou Tien 

 deposit. Palaeontologia sinica. Vol. 7, fasc. i, 24 pp., 8 figs., 2 pis., Peking, 

 1927. 



— . Preliminary note on additional Sinanthropus material discovered in 



Chou Kou Tien during 1928. Bull. Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 8, No. i, pp. 

 15-20, 6 pis, Peking, 1929; same published under the title "Sinanthropus 

 pekinensis: The recovery of further fossil remains of this early hominid 

 from the Chou Kou Tien deposit." Science, 1929, 674-676, 2 figs. See also 

 Nature, Dec. 28, 1929, pp. 973-974. 



Keith, Sir Arthur. The fossil man of Peking. The Lancet, Sept. 28, 1929, 

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Smith, G. Elliott. The Peking man. A new chapter of human history. The 

 Illustr. Lond. News, Oct. 19, 1929, 672-673, 4 figs, and a reconstruction. 



