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as he has designated the species, suggests, as Dr. Major has 

 set forth in the Geological Magazine for October, 1896, 

 page 436, " the following general conclusions : — 



"(i) We may look forward in Continental Africa likewise 

 for the discovery of Tertiary monkeys, intermediate between 

 CebidcB and Cercopithecidce. 



"(2) The recent African CercopithecidcB are not invaders 

 from the North-East, as has been supposed ; on the contrary, 

 most, if not all, of the Tertiary monkeys of Europe and Asia 

 are derived from the Ethiopian region. The home of a 

 part at least of the Anthropoidea seems to have been in 

 the Southern Hemisphere. This assumption is corroborated 

 by the two facts — that Afithropoidea make their appearance for 

 the first time in the later Tertiary of Europe and Asia, and 

 that they are entirely absent from the Tertiary of North 

 America." 



After the first paragraph on page 219, the discoveries of Dr. 

 Eugene Dubois, made since these pages were written, neces- 

 sitate the insertion of the following paragraphs. 



In the year 1892 this distinguished geologist made one ot 

 the most important contributions to our knowledge of the 

 antiquity of man. In that year he disinterred a large number 

 of vertebrate remains from beds — determined to be of late 

 Pliocene, if not of Miocene age — "of cemented volcanic tuff, 

 consisting of clay, sand, and consolidated lapilli," at Trinil 

 on the slope of the Kendeng Hills in Java. Among these 

 remains were a portion of a cranium, two molar teeth, and a 

 femur, presenting mixed simian and human characters. The 

 dimensions of the skull-cap showed that the internal capacity 

 of the cranium was about 1,000 cubic centimetres, while the 

 largest skulls of the Simiidce averaged only about 500 centi- 

 metres. With the exception of this large capacity, the 

 calvarium presented few characters which were not strongly 



