﻿58 SMITIISONIAK^ MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 76 



On the following day the party arrived at Jersey and were met by 

 Professor ]\larett under whose guidance were seen the originals of 

 Homo brcladcnsis. the local archeological collections and the cave of 

 St. Brelade. where work still continues. This site has already given 

 upwards of 20,000 chipped stones of the Mousterian and Aurignacian 

 cultural periods. 



Upon his arrival at the British ^luseum of Natural History, 

 Dr. Hrdlicka found awaiting him in care of Professor Smith Wood- 

 w^ard a cordial invitation from Professor Eugene Dubois of Haarlem, 

 Holland, to visit him and see the famous remains of the Pithecan- 

 thropus as well as the other Java remains in his possession, which for 

 many years were inaccessible. This so far unique privilege, made 

 possible by the fact that Dr. Dubois has at last completed his studies 

 on the precious objects, was taken full advantage of on July 15, 

 Dr. Dubois demonstrating personally and without reserve all the 

 specimens. The remains of, or those attributed to, the Pithecanthropus 

 consist of the now thoroughly cleansed skull-cap, a femur and three 

 teeth, two molars and one premolar. Besides these there is from 

 another locality a piece of a strange primitive lower jaw, and also two 

 skulls with many parts of the skeletons of a later, though yet rather 

 primitive, type of man from consolidated calcareous deposits in still 

 another part of the island. 



The examination of the originals belonging to the Pithecanthropus 

 find was in many respects a revelation. It was seen that none of the 

 casts now in various institutions are accurate, and that the same is 

 true of the so far published illustrations, above all those of the teeth 

 and femur. The originals are even more important than held hitherto. 

 The new brain cast shows an organ very close to human. The femur 

 is without question human. When the detailed study of all these speci- 

 mens is published, which Dr. Dubois expects to occur before the 

 end of the winter, the specimens, though all controversial points 

 may not be settled, will assume even a weightier place in science 

 than they have had up to the present. 



In connection with the visit to Haarlem a stop was made in Amster- 

 dam for the purpose of visiting the classic Vrolik Museum, together 

 with the valuable more recent anthropological collections of Pro- 

 fessor Louis Bolk. w'hich include a series of the deformed skulls from 

 the Zuyder Zee showing a type that is identical with that of several 

 .skulls from the Delaware \'allcy which at one time were supposed to 

 be very ancient (Bull. 33, Bureau of American Ethnology). The 

 Museum is now directed bv Professor Bolk, and in his absence, duo 



