il Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ([Jan., 1915. 
Babu Narendra Nath Ray, B.A., LL.B., Pleader, Judge’s 
Court, Benares, proposed by Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 
Shastri, seconded by Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana. 
Dr. G. E. Pilgrim exhibited a fossil jaw, possessing ances- 
tral human characters, from the Miocene of the Punjab. 
e jaw was represented by five fragments which he con- 
and two at Haritalyangar, Belaspur State, Simla Hills. 
briefly detailed the evidence that the Chinji specimens belonged 
to the Chinji horizon of the Lower Siwaliks and the Harital. 
e 
structed mainly on the evidence of a right ramus from Chinji 
complete from the alveolus of the canine back to the last 
He commented upon the more obvious unhuman features 
of the jaw, the large canine, the presence of a posterior heel 
in the canine similar to that in the Gibbon, the excess of 
length of m, over m, and m,, and the absence of a chi 
primitive anthropoid characters which would be expected to 
occur in any Miocene anthropoid genus whether it was on the 
uman line or not. 
the stronger claim to be puton the line leading to Homo Sapiens, 
he thought the time that had elapsed since the early Pleisto- 
cene, the date assigned to Hoanthropus by its discoverers, 
hardly sufficient for the jaw to have evolved into that of 
1 Ree. Geol. Surv. India, vol. XLIII, pt. 4, pp. 265-326. 
