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2 — The jaw and skull are fossilized 

 in the same manner and degree. 



3 — They were found in an ancient 

 gravel-bed containing the debris of older 

 deposits. "As the skull and lower jaw 

 are very little water-worn, they would 

 not have occurred in close association 

 if they had been transported far from 



cene Xge have been discovered in the 

 glacial and interglacial deposits of Eng- 

 land and the Continent, but in this 

 highly varied fauna the anthropoid apes 

 have always been conspicuously absent, 

 and there is no reliable evidence that 

 any of the race ever lived in England 

 during the Pleistocene Epoch. 



Fig. 5. The same three specimens of Figs. 3 and 4, viewed from above. Abbreviations as in pre- 

 \'ious figures; also, l, 2, 3, 4, 5. cusps of the lower molars; m. p., median plane; *, broken edge 



the spot at which they were originally 

 entombed" (Smith Woodward). 



4 — The suggestion that while the 

 brain-case was human, the lower jaw 

 belonged to another creature, an ape, 

 is not in harmony with what is already 

 known of the fauna and climate of Eu- 

 rope during Pleistocene times. Thou- 

 sands of mammalian remains of Pleisto- 



5 — F'ossil remains of anthropoids of 

 any age have hitherto been exceedingly 

 rare, and the chances that a jaw of a 

 hitherto unknown type of anthropoid ape 

 should be washed into the same gravel- 

 bed with a human skull of conformable 

 size, and that both should become min- 

 eralized in the same manner and degree, 

 may be regarded as extremely small. 



