BLIN Rl \ II.W. 



S.R.B, 



80. 



book (Evolution id. 



191 . 6d. net) is tli' t in thi- 



:hc beginnings 

 modest a IK; 



that scienc- life original 



how, having originated, it obtained the power ! 

 without wh volutio: commonly under- 



d, could not have taken place. Further, 1. 

 to point out that the chronology prefixed i- of 



holly conjectural character. Air Knipc passes un. 

 review, in his handsomely printed and ; ly illus- 



trated work, the various periods of geological hi-ti.ry, and 

 indicates the forms which were to be found in each. .M 

 over, he illustrates his descriptions by a number of recon- 

 structions of extinct creatures from the brush, for the 

 -t part, of Miss Alice B. Woodward. Allowing for the 

 permissible artistic licence which must be given to such 

 efforts, ue have no more to say about most of them than 

 they will give a very vivid and not inaccurate idea, to 

 those not deeply versed in science, of the appearances of 

 the fauna and flora of those bygone days. It is when we 

 come to the representations of Pithecanthropus and 

 primitive man that we find some reason to quarrel with 

 both the artist and the writer. 



Of Pithecanthropus no more than a fragment of a 

 skull, a femur and teeth have been found, and as these 

 were at some distance from one another there is no posi- 

 tive evidence that all the objc&s belonged to the same- 

 individual. It is not unlikely, and that i? the nio-t we can 

 say. Further, a recent expedition, after t'ul 



h in the part of Java from which these cx.mij 

 came, has found no more objects of any kind attributable 

 to Pithecanthropus and no implerm ny sort. 



U'oodward's restoration of Pithecanth; 

 therefore, built up en singularly little evidence. Further, 

 Mr Knipe's vicu that man must have exited at this 

 period 1 'ie nude eoliths is seriously discredited by 



the most recent observations on th<> iled imple- 



ments which are, it may now be pn lainly c 



eluded, purely natural objects. No one can doubt this who 

 the Abbe Hreuil'.- paper in I, \-fntkropologie 

 (1910, p. 385), and it may be added th.it tl. 

 the 

 Hunlrr \ and noticed in th: 



Whether Pithecanthro} ot, and win 



very little doubt that her representation of Homo 

 iensis i libel on that ancient 



H him \\ rm 



ry fair idea of what he was lik .as not a hand- 



som S| in fact he p: 



inbled not a lit- ralian of recent times, but 



