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Dawkins, Boyd. [Discussion of the Piltdown skull.] Abstr. Proc. Geol. 

 Soc. London, session 1912-13, pp. 23-24. December 28, 1912. (See also 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, vol. 69, pp. 148-149. March, 1913, issued 

 April 25, 1913.) 



Accepts association of skull and jaw. Concludes that Eoanthropus 

 is " a missing link between man and the higher apes, appearing at that 

 stage of the evolution of the higher mammalia in which it may be 

 looked for—in the pleistocene age. The modern type of man had no 

 place in this age." 

 Dawson, Charles, and Woodward, Arthur Smith. On the discovery of 

 a palaeolithic human skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel over- 

 lying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). 

 Abstr. Proc. Geol. Soc. London, session 1912-13, pp. 20-22. December 

 28, 1912. 



Abstract of history and characters. Name not printed. " .... it 

 may be_ regarded as representing a hitherto unknown genus and species, 

 for which a. new name is proposed." 

 Dawson, Charles, and Woodward, Arthur Smith. On the discovery of a 

 palaeolithic human skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel over- 

 lying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, vol. 69, pp. 1 17-124, pis. 15-21 (wash 

 drawings; for photographs see Woodward, 1915), figs. 1-10. March, 1913. 

 Read December 18, 1912 ; issued April 25, 1913. 

 Dawson, Charles, and Woodward, Arthur Smith. Supplementary note 

 on the discovery of a palaeolithic human skull and mandible at Piltdown 

 (Sussex). Abstr. Proc. Geol. Soc. London, session 1913-1914, pp. 28-29. 

 December 31, 1913. 



" In shape, the canine resembles the milk canine of man and that of 

 the apes more closely than it agrees with the permanent canine of any 

 known ape. In accordance with a well-known palaeontological law, 

 it therefore approaches the canine of the hypothetical Tertiary An- 

 thropoids more nearly than any corresponding tooth hitherto found." 

 Dawson, Charles, and Woodward, Arthur Smith. Supplementary note 

 on the discovery of a palaeolithic human skull and mandible at Piltdown 

 (Sussex). Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, vol. 70, pp. 82-93, pis. 14-15, 

 figs. 1-3. April 25, 1914. 



" It results, therefore, from these comparisons that, among known 

 Upper Tertiary and Recent Anthropoids, the permanent lower canine of 

 Eoanthropus agrees more closely in shape with the milk-canine both 

 of man and of the apes than with the corresponding permanent tooth 

 in either of these groups. It is also obvious that the resemblance is 

 greater between Eoanthropus and Homo than between the former and 

 any known genus of apes. In other words, the permanent tooth of 

 the extinct Eoanthropus is almost identical in shape with the tem- 

 porary milk-tooth of the existing Homo. Hence it forms another illus- 

 tration of the well-known law in mammalian palaeontology, that the 

 permanent teeth of an. ancestral race agree more closely in pattern with 

 the milk teeth than with the permanent teeth of its modified descend- 

 ants " (p. 91). 

 Duckworth, Dr. [Discussion of the Piltdown skull]. Abstr. Proc. Geol. 

 Soc. London, session 1912-1913, p. 24. December 28, 1912. (See also 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, vol. 69, p. 149. March, 1913. Issued 

 April 25, 1913-) 



" It was justifiable to associate the various fragments as parts of 

 one human skull, and the presence of so many simian characters in 

 one and the same specimen was a point of great significance." 



