336 THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
reveals not only the size and form of the brain, but also 
many of the finer markings which give the anatomist 
a clue to the actual anatomy of the brain. The brain 
cast was entrusted to Professor Elliot Smith for examina- 
tion. No one is so well qualified as he to interpret the 
significance of its features. His verdict, pronounced 
after his first preliminary examination, was that, "taking 
all its features into consideration, we must regard this as 
being the most primitive and most simian human brain 
so far recorded." 
When we sum up all the characters which Dr Smith 
Woodward has portrayed in this new form of being — the 
anthropoid characters of the mouth, teeth, and face, the 
massive and ill-filled skull, the simian characters of 
the brain and its primitive and pre-human general 
appearance — one feels convinced that he was absolutely 
justified in creating a new genus of the family Hominidae 
for its reception. This new genus he named Eoanthropus. 
Ever since Darwin impressed the truth of his theory of 
man's origin on his fellow-scientists we have expected to 
encounter man's progenitors, but no one, so far as I 
know, ever anticipated the discovery of one showing the 
remarkable mixture of simian and human characters — 
such a one as Mr Dawson brought to light at Piltdown. 
