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L. Manouvrier — Pithecanthropus erectus. 



with the cranial cap of Trinil, to construct a skull having an 

 appearance either completely human or completely simian. 

 The occipital characters which I attributed to it differ radically 

 from those of adult anthropoids; in vain did I orient it in 



Fig. 7 (fig. 59) — Skull of Margaretha Moehler, microcephalous adult of Carl 

 Yogt. The dotted lines represent two well developed feminine crania from Paris; 

 one large, the other small. The auditory meatus is the point of superposition. 



superposing it upon a human cranium ; it had not, for that, an 

 appearance suitably human, and we attempt in vain to pivot 

 it about its bi-auricular axis in order to give it an air more 

 human or more simian : we are struck by divers incompati- 

 bilities. The truth, which, I think, will appear clearly to all 

 craniologists, is that the skull from Trinil represents the mor- 

 phologic stage of the young anthropoid, a stage during which 

 these animals approach man in important cranial characters 

 much more nearly than at the adult age. 



The adult Pithecanthropus possessed these characters of the 

 young anthropoid ; such is the result of our attempt at recon- 

 stitution, result independent, I repeat, of incurring chances of 

 error, independent also of any preconceived idea, for I have 

 striven only to place each separate point of the cranium and 

 each line conformably to anatomic correlations without pre- 

 occupying myself as to the final result. It has been admitted 

 that the two molars, the femur, and the skull belong to the 

 same individual, but this hypothesis has not exercised the 

 least influence upon the drawing of the cranial region, properly 

 so called. The technical details and justifications are to be 

 found in the Bulletin cle la Societe oV Anthropologic above 

 mentioned. I present here only a few drawings, which may 

 be compared advantageously with the preceding. 



The fact that the skull from Java bears such a strong mor- 



