MAN. 95 
One could fill a museum with discarded missing links; 
and yet men refuse to learn caution, and repeat their 
shoutings every time a new find is announced. It will 
be instructive to pass in review a few of the more famous 
prehistoric remains of man which have at one time and 
another been declared undeniable proof of a development, 
through intermediate stages, of the human body from the 
body of a brute. 
Pithecanthropus Erectus is the name invented by 
Haeckel for the “‘missing link,” and given by Dr. Eugene 
Du Bois, a Dutch physician, to certain remains discovered 
by him on the island of Java in 1891. The remains con- 
sist of ‘an imperfect cranium, a femur bearing evidence 
of prolonged disease, and a molar tooth.” (Dana, “Man- 
ual of Geology,’ p. 1036.) The discoverer of these bones 
believed that they are the remains of a being between 
the man-apes and man. Prof. Virchow and other special- 
ists in anatomy examined this find. It was established 
that the femur was found a year after the cranium. 
Some regard the remains as belonging to a low-grade 
man or to an idiot. (Dana, J c.) The cubic measure- 
ment of the skull is 60 cubic inches, about that of an 
idiot, that of a normal man being 90 cubic inches and that 
of an ape 30. These specimens were found in separate 
places. The skull is too small for the thigh-bone. The 
age of the strata in which they were found is uncertain. 
An authority of the first rank, Prof. Klaatsch, of Heidel- 
berg University, says that the creature “does not supply 
the missing link.” 
Dr. Smith Woodward and Dr. Charles Dawson, in 
reconstructing a man from the Piltdown skull, discovered 
in 1912 on Piltdown Common, near Ucksfield, Sussex, 
England, built up something essentially monkey-like, 
with receding forehead, projecting brows, and a gorilla- 
like lower jaw. Prof. Keith, a renowned specialist, 
