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AJJ^NUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



bedded. Finally, in October of the same year, the second molar was 

 secured, at a distance of not more than 3 meters (13 feet) from the 

 original position of the skull cap, and in the direction of the resting 

 place of the femur. 



The accompanying illustrations (pl.^ and text fig. 1) show the 

 locality of the discovery and the approximate positions of the speci- 

 mens. 



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Fig. 1.— Section of the ossifekous steata at the loc.u.itt w'beke the 



PiTHECANTHEOPUS BONES WEKE DISCO VEEED. A, AEEA OF GEOWING 

 PL.1NTS; B, SOFT sandstone; C, LAPILLI STEATUM; D, LE'V'EL at WHICH 

 THE skeletal EEMAINS "WXEE FOUND; E, conglomeeate; F, aegilla- 

 CEous layee; G, maeine beeccia; H, wet-season level of the eiver; 

 I, DEY-sEASON LEVEL OF THE EIVER. (After Dubois, Smithsonian Report 

 for 1898.)2 



All four specimens were considerably mineralized, being of choco- 

 late-brown color, very heavy, and " harder than marble." Numer- 

 ous bones of mammals found in the same bed belonged to species 

 now extinct or, so far as known, not now living in Java, and showed 

 fossilization similar to that of the bones of the Pithecanthropus. 

 The contours of the teeth and the femur were sharp, indicating that 



1 After Mme. L. Selenlsa and M. Blankenhorn : Die Pithecanthropus-Schichten auf Java, 

 4», Leipzig, 1911. 



2 From the Smithsonian Report for 1898, p. 446, article Pithecanthropus erectus, by 

 Eugfene Dubois (translated from the Anatomisclier Anzeiger, vol. 12, pp. 1-22) ; original 

 in Trans. Royal Dublin Soc, vol. 6, 1896, pp. 1-18. 



