204 SOME NOTES ON THE EARLY HOMINIDiE 
This first man had in all probability occupied a large area, 
including the Sunda Islands and Indo- China — regions then 
i 2 3 
Fig. 3. — 1, Skull of Chimpanzee. 2, Calvarium op 
Pithecanthropus. 3, Skull op Modern Man. 
Lines are drawn from points between the eyebrows 
to the occipital ridge at back. It will at once be 
seen that the dome of the skull of Pithecanthropus 
is much shallower than that of modern man. (From 
Sir E. Ray Lankester’s Extinct Animals.) 
Fig. 4. — Skull op Modern European Race. 
connected by land across the shallow waters which now exist 
between the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java (Figs. 8 and 4). 
Dr. Munro, in a thoughtful paper read before the Edin- 
burgh Royal Society (Jan. 4, 1897), says : ‘ If the geological 
