Jan., 1915.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. iii 
omo sapiens, representatives of which probably existed in 
the Middle Pleistocene—although Homo neanderthalensis may 
have been connected with Hoanthropus, but failed to survive 
to the present day. n the other hand there was ample 
time between the Miocene and the Pleistocene for Sivapithecus 
to have eliminated the unhuman features to which he had 
referred. 
He thought it exceedingly improbable that man was 
descended from the species exhibited, but he suggested that it 
was quite possible that the hypothetical Miocene human ancestor 
was some marginal species of the same genus at present un- 
known, or at all events a closely allied one. 
Dr. Pilgrim referred to a paper dealing more fully with the 
subject, which would shortly be published in the Records of the 
Geological Survey of India. 
Dr. N. Annandale pointed out that the teeth, at any rate, 
r. Hossack agreed with Dr. Annandale’s comment that 
some of the individual teeth were extraordinarily unworn, in fact 
