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horizon much more ancient than those to which belong all the other 

 human remains known to date." 



In September, 1910, there was published an answer to the above 

 by Ameghino/ some parts of which deserve to be reproduced here 

 in full. 



Speaking of the anthropologists who during the earher months 

 of that year came to see or study the Diprothomo, Ameghino states: 

 "I was able to note that the first impression produced by the sight 

 of the specimen was one of surprise; then came reaction and they 

 searched by one procedure or another, to pose the fragment so as to 

 give it or make it assume a form resembling more or less that of the 

 corresponcUng part of man. To obtain these results I have seen 

 employed procedures which I do not believe to be scientific, for 

 operating thus I could give a human aspect to the callotte of a chim- 

 panzee and an aspect of a chimpanzee to the skull-cap of a human 

 being." Doctor Ameghino does not understand why anthropologists 

 are led to beUeve that he erred in the orientation of the specimen and, 

 in respect to Mochi's contentions, makes the following double-edged 

 admission: "What is most curious about all this is, that it is pre- 

 cisely those characteristics which Mochi makes disappear by a new 

 posing of the skull which, according to my view, characterize clearly 

 the Diprothomo, and which lead me to say that the Diprothomo is 

 zoologically, in the broadest sense and without the possibility of a 

 doubt, a genus distinct from 'Homo.'' . . . 



"I still think," Ameghino says, "in the same way. I am con- 

 vinced, or I shall say more — I am almost certain,^ that the orienta- 

 tion which I gave the specimen in question is, if not absolutely the 

 same at least very close to that which it must have had in life. I 

 have figured it in the highest possible degree of elevation, so that I 

 believe it could be placed still somewhat lower. It will be compre- 

 hended consequently that it is not possible to arrive at contrary 

 results except by false posing and I believe that the one adopted by 

 Doctor Mochi is of that nature." 



In the remaining part of the paper Ameghino proceeds to prove 

 by further minute examination, with the help of a line steel wire, 

 that his former conclusion, particularly in regard to the glabellar 

 and subglabellar region of the fragment, are correct, and that "the 

 characteristics which he has given are real and incompatible with a 

 different orientation of the specimen." Particular stress is laid on 

 the defect of the subglabellar part of the frontal process. In liis 

 words, "The inferior glabellar p)rojection is formed by that part of the 

 glabeUa or the interorbital prolongation of the frontal which descends 



' Ameghino, F., Sur rorientation de la calotte du Diprothomo: in Anales del Musco Nacional de Buenos 

 Aires, XX (ser. iii, t. xni), 1910, pp. 319-327. 

 * "Je suis convaincujje dirai plus, j'ai la presque certitude," 



