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the Argentine, he made some excellent general sugges- 

 tions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, 

 do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but 

 represent a divergence from it away from hiunanity and 

 toward a retrogressive bestialization. But of his main 

 theses he proves none, and what evidence we have tells 

 against them. At the Museum of La Plata I found that 

 the authorities were practically a unit in regarding his 

 remains of tertiary men and proto-men as being either 

 the remains of tertiary American monkeys or of Ameri- 

 can Indians from strata that were long post-tertiary. 

 The extraordinary discovery, due to that eminent scientist 

 and public servant Doctor Moreno, of the remains of 

 man associated with the remains of the great extinct 

 South American fauna, of the mylodon, of a giant ungu- 

 late, of a huge cat like the lion, and of an extraordinary 

 aberrant horse (of a wholly different genus from the 

 modern horse) conclusively shows that in its later stages 

 the South American fauna consisted largely of types 

 that elsewhere had already disappeared and that these 

 types persisted into what was geologically a very recent 

 period only some tens of thousands of years ago, when 

 savage man of practically a modern type had already 

 appeared in South America. The evidence we have, so 

 far as it goes, tends to show that the South American 

 fauna always has been more archaic in type than the 

 arctogeal fauna of the same chronological level. 



To loose generalizations, and to elaborate misinterpre- 

 tations of paleontological records, the kind of work done 

 by Mr. Haseman furnishes an invaluable antiscorbutic. 

 To my mind, he has established a stronger presumption 



