L. Manouvrier — Pithecanthropus erectus. 



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London, Berlin and Jena. He will set forth, without doubt, 

 in the near future the happy effects of that scientific tour upon 

 anatomists when he describes the fossil fauna (Upper Plio- 

 cene) contemporaneous with the Pithecanthropus. The opin- 

 ion adopted seems to be to-day very generally analogous to the 

 one set forth at the beginning of this article. 



It is the aspect of the specimens from Trinil and their complete 



FlG. 2 (fig. 54.) — Norma verticalis of the skull of Trinil compared with that of 

 the Neanderthal skull. 



fossilization, which surpasses by far that of all human remains, 

 even the most ancient known until then, that tend more power- 

 fully than all demonstration to place them as contemporaneous 

 and as coming from one and the same individual, especially since 

 there exists among them no want of anatomic correlation.. 

 The degree of fossilization is such that the femur attains the 

 weight of 1 kilogram, whereas prehistoric femurs of the same 

 size do not exceed 350 grains. All that, joined to the condi- 

 tions of the deposit, adds value to the divers anatomic facts 

 and deductions given above, and constitutes a mass of argu- 

 ments before which it becomes difficult not to surrender. 

 Without doubt, these diverse fossil pieces, which all present 

 characters intermediate between the human and the simian 

 morphology, these diverse portions of the skeleton which are 

 all explained the one by the other, do not come from two or 

 three different species which would have met in some way by 



