goticcs of |lcl\) l^ioohs. 



I. Die neueste Lifteratur ilher die aitinjestorhenen Anthropomorplien. 

 (Separat-abdruck aus dem ZooIogis>'hen Anzeiger, xxiii. Bd. 

 No. 616, vom 28 .Afai 1900.) Von Professor M. Schlosser 

 in Miinchen. 



II. Das menschliche Feraur, nehst Beitrdgen zur Kenntniss der Affen- 

 femora. Inaugural Dissertation, von Johannes Bumtiller. 

 Miinchen, 1899. 



III. Einiges iiber Zwergemoticlis. Von Dr F. Birkner. Miinchen, 

 1899. 



I. 



Professor Schlosser reviews recent literature on the subject of fossil 

 aathropoid apes, and gives the titles of five papers (by Hofmann, 

 Roger, Harle, Dubois, and v. Branco) on this subject. While admit- 

 ting the interest which the now famous fragments of Pithecaiithropus 

 eredus must possess, the author devotes the greater part of his article 

 to the consideration of other fossils. In almost every instance there 

 will be found differences of opinion as to the exact relation of fossil 

 and recent forms, and the present essay gives a summary of tlie 

 grounds on which the several views are held. In this place it will 

 only be possible to give the very briefest notice of each case. The 

 tirst fossil anthropomorphous ape referred to is that known as Plio- 

 jjithecus antiquus, a form of which the remains are found in Steier- 

 mark, at Giiriach. Hofmann regards Pliopithet'us antiquus as closely 

 allied to the living species of Hylohates, and Schlosser agrees with 

 this view, which is opposed by Dubois, who believes that "funda- 

 mental " differences between the fossil and recent forms are demon- 

 strable. 



Palaeopithecus sivalensis is next dealt with, and here again we find 

 Dubois and Schlosser in opposition, the former claiming a place for 

 this Asiatic form widely separated from all recent forms (it had been 

 regarded as closely allied to Troglodytes niger), whereas Schlosser finds 

 himself little inclined to agree with this view, though he does not say 

 which recent anthropoid ape is indicated as the nearest in position to 

 Palaeopithecus. 



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