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LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
Hongkong, May 27, 1921.
on
THURSDAY, Jane 2, 1921. commencing at 2.45 p.m.
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Oh view from Wednesday, the 1st!
June, 1921.
Terme-Cash on delivery.
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WORLD'S MYSTERY..
ANCESTRAL MAN. ·
PROF. KEITH ON SIMIAN TRACE IN
ANCESTRAL MANI
Many prophecies made by Darwin are coming true. This was the burden of a discourse by Professor Keith at the Royal Institution on March 15.
The Sage of Down." said the lecturer, foretold the discovery of human ancestors of a simian type, but never in his most sanguine moments guessed that England had been the home of at least one of them.
Yet less than 30 years after his death. Bir. Charles Dawson had dis- covered, below the soil of the Sussex Weald, less than 30 miles from Darwin's home, the fossil reinsins of man with the mark of the ape still strong upon him!
DARWINIAN GARDEN OF EDEN. In Darwin's day Englishmen took a very modest view of their country: they believed as many of them still do. that English history begins with the landing of L'œsar.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
being with an ape-like-jaw and a man-like brain, was too tough a disă for their scientific stomachs.
Here then was very pretty (Bauter's Berofës to the China"Mail.) quarrel over our oldest Englishman, Was be to be cut in two and made into a man and a chimpanzee, or was he indeed just the evolutionary product Darwin taught us to expect-a man who had not yer-shed all wis simian troppings?
of structure.
COAL DISPUTE.
LONDON. May 25th. The Premier had, a conference lasting an hour and a half with the miners Executive this morning, but without re
Reuter understands that the Premier that unless an" agree.
The Piltdown man as a compound sult, of human and simian traits does not j told the miners stand alone, declared the lectures. ment between the parties is reached All the earliest fossil temains of man legislation will be introdured to enforce shows just the same piebald patchwork settlement by arbitration.
The miners said they adhered to the -Time will show," said Professor bling block in the way of a settlement
national profits pool which is a stum Keith, that Darwin's countrymen so far. The Premier said that this is are in the right about the Filtdown not a matter for consideration, either- man: he is a true product of Nature's now or by arbitration.
Loxbox. May 29th. ancient handiwork"
The Miners' Executive has decided to
The only land which could claim submit the Government's proposals to an ancestor of even a greater degree the districts. of antiquity than our Piltdown man was Java. There, some 30 years
LONDON, May 29th, After the miners, the Premier met the ago, Professor Dubois discovered the coal-owners. No arrangements have been fossil remains of the remarkable made for a conference of miners and
coal-owners, being to which be gare the name of
LONDON, May 8th. Pithecanthropus--ape-man. Pro- The Government's proposals submitted No one then dated even to dreamfestor Dubois believed he had dis- to the miners and the coal-owners, to that at a very remote period of time covered a veritable "missing bak"day, are identical.
The Premier's speech, cabled yesterday, England had been Darwinian such as Darwin's theory, postulates, regards these as a temporary arrange Garden of Eden. The discovery of and this was the opinion generally ment, while proposals for permanent the Piltdown remains in the Weald of Sussex made our country the home of the earliest known inhabitant of Europe,
The oldest human skeletons eo für discovered in Egypt or in. Babylon, said the lecturer, are things of yester- day compared to the Filtdown re- mains, which have been reposing in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, since 1912.
During the war anthropologista hed more urgent matters to think about than foseil mes, but now that their minds are free again the ancient Englishman was once more coming in for d considerable amount of atten- tion, particularly by experts living in America, France, and other countries abroad.
accepted by experts.
NATURE'S EVOLUTION.
scheme state that, since it is plain that the parties are unable to agree to There were critics, however, who, tinged period, the matter must be decid- the terms of an arrangement for a con- failing to perceive the speckled led by one of three methods; firstly, the mixtures which mature employed in establishment of a national wage board. working out her evolutionary crea-on which coal-owners and miners may be tions, thought that Pithecanthropus equally represented with a neutral chair. was also a composite being. It was man; or, secondly, the catablishment of a tribunal of three persons to decide the supposed by them to be made up by dispute; or, thirdly, reference of the having a human thighbone fixed to a dispute to a single arbitrator. massive skull which was half human, The determining body must report
within two months. half anthropoid.
"Humorous situations are thus: arising," remarked the professor, "25 we attempt to unravel the, fossil ancestors of man."
AMERICAN POLO TEAM.
LONDON, May 29th. Third on the list of countries 'A notable change has been made in the claiming to have early traces of fossil polo team, which will consist of Ramsey, man came Germany, with the Heidel-Hopping, Webb and Milbarz-so far. | regarded as probable representatives of berg lower jaw, discovered in 1908. America in the forthcoming tests. The He might be said to be passing Here again we had the curious reserve Hopping been substituted as through a very bad time. No ques-compounding of human and simian Number 2
The change is tion was made of his great antiquity, traits; if the teeth had been found factory outcome of a trial game against as a satis but our critics alleged that he was a spart from the jaw they would have Hurlingham side, yesterday, which was composite being, made up by fitting been said to be human, but had the beaten by 10 to 6 gpala. Hitchcock and the fossil lower jaw of an extinct in itself been found without the the other Americas reserve Stoddard, breed of chimpanzees to, the fossil teeth it would have been assigned to also, Lord Dalmeny and Liezt. Colonel Hunter comprised the Hurlingham side. skull of a peculiar race of mankind an ape
2 for
In short, we were being told that the With discoveries like these aireddy Filtdows man was the creation, not made, and many more to come, itu.8. EMERGENCY TARIFF -HILL.
grows increasingly difficult, concluded of Nature, but of a geologist 1
A PRETTY FROBLEM,
Professor Keith, for Darwin's critics to say that he was a false prophet.
Sussex, it was asserted, was in ancient times inhabited by chim- panzees as well as by men, and by some curious chance the lower jaw of the one and the skull of the other were swept together into the same bed
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