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later, in a startling, almost romantic way, by the discovery 

 by Mr. Dawson and a young French naturalist who were 

 resifting and searching the gravel at the exact spot where 

 the jaw was found, of one of the great canine teeth, 

 twice as big as that 

 of any man and 

 resembling that of 

 a chimpanzee (see 

 Fig. 26 and its ex- 

 planation). There 

 was a good deal of 

 hesitation about the 

 admission of the 

 correctness of Dr. 

 Smith Woodward's 

 presentation of the 

 jaw of Eoanthropus, 

 with so close a re- 

 semblance to that 

 of a chimpanzee. 

 But the careful con- 

 sideration of the 

 specimen, and above 

 all the welcome dis- 

 covery of the great 

 ape-like canine, has 

 now convinced every anatomist of the 

 truth of Dr. Woodward's restoration. 

 The jaw itself and the recovered canine 

 tooth, as well as the completely restored model of the two 

 sides of the lower jaw and of the brain-case, may now 

 be seen and studied by visitors to the Natural History 

 Museum. They are placed in the Geological Gallery. 

 I have visited with Mr. Dawson the gravel at Piltdown 

 where the jaw and skull were found, and have picked 



Fig. 26. — The canine 

 tooth of the right side 

 Qf the lower jaw of 

 Eoanthropus Daw- 

 soni, found at Pilt- 

 down a year after the 

 discovery and de- 

 scription of the lower 

 jaw, to which it be- 

 longs. Drawn of the 

 natural size. To the 

 left a back view, to 

 the right a side view, 

 showing the wearing 

 away of the surface 

 of the tooth. 



Fig. 27. — Canine 

 tooth of the right 

 side of the lower 

 jaw of a European 

 child, milk denti- 

 tion. This ^' first " 

 tooth is drawn of 

 twice its actual 

 length and breadth, 

 which brings it very 

 nearly to the same 

 size as the canine of 

 Eoanthropus. It is 

 more closely similar 

 in shape to the 

 canine of the Pilt- 

 down jaw than is 

 the canine of the 

 second or perman- 

 ent dentition of 

 modern man. 



