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Fossilised Human Remains Found In China
THE
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Greatest Discovery Of Modern Science
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For the past year or two a group of internationally known courtesy of scientists has been quietly at work on some fossilised frag-Lilac Time" Vocal Gems,
Co., Ltd), ments of human remains found in an old limestone bed within a few miles of Peking.
They have now reached the conclusion, after a thorough study of the material, that these remains represent the nearest approach to the so-called "missing link" between man and ape so far revealed to science,
THE PILTDOWN MAN
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The discovery is regarded and no widely overshadowing in importance even
known one of such notable finds as the "Piltdown
the greatest living au- thorities Man" unearthed in England in 1912
on his subject. Though unable to move and the "Java Ape Man" found by
without crutches, the Dutch army surgeon
Dr. Grabau works for long hours Dubois in in his old-world 1891. All three are believed to be-garden
Chinese long to approximately the geological age, but the Sinan thropus Pekinensis, "Peking Man" as this new genus has been called, is held
to be much more human than either of the others. It appears to stand definitely in the main line of mun's development.
or
same
Columbia Light Opera Company. "Noche De Arabia" (Arbos),
Madrid Symphony Orchestra. "Polish Dance, No. 1" (Scharwenke), "Dance Of The Dwarfs"
(Grieg-Op. 54),
B.B.C. Wireless Military Band. "Fingal's Cave" (Mendelssohn),
Overture, "Two Songs Without Words"
(Mendelssohn),
Sir Henry Wood Conducting the New Queen's Hall Orchestra. "New Sulivan Selection,"
Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, "Rhapsodie No. 2" (Liszt),
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. In A Monastery Garden" (Ketelbey), Albert W. Ketelbey's Concert Orchestra.
'Cello Solo,
Antoni Sala.
Percy Pitt and the B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orch, "Zapateado" (Sarasate),
Liebesicid" (Kreisler), Violin Solo,
7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Report, at researches into
9.00 p.m. Evening General Pro- the geological history of Asia. He gramme. (Columbia told how Dr, Bohlin had worked courtesy of Messrs. Anderson Music Records by alone at his excavations for six Co., Ltd.). months without finding a single "Mister Cinder?" (Ellis and Myers), trace of the human remains he was
Selection, seeking, Civil war was
Debroy Somers' Band. gress not far away, and the rumble "Mazurka" (Popper, Op. 11, No. 3),
in pro-Nocturne in E Flat" (Chopin, Op. 9), of artillery could be heard above The finding of two evidently the noise of human teeth furnished the first roamed
the picks. Soldiers over the countryside in "Carmen" (Bizet), Selection, clue. These were brought to light search of loot, and Dr. Bohlin had as the result of investigations made been instructed by the Survey au- in the first instance by Dr. J. G. thorities to give up and return to his Andersson, Swedish adviser to the base at Peking. Chinese Geological Survey, in 1926. But the young Swedish scientist "Casse Noisette" (Tschaikowsky),
Efrem Zimbalist, at a pace called Choukoutien, was not to be beaten. among the
hills southwest of worked away, and on
Still he Suite, Peking, where the fissures of a
October 16, 1927, his doggedness was rewarded cavernous limestone bed had been
by the finding of the tooth which filled with the bones of. prehistoric ince has made him famous in the animals which either had tumbled scientific world. in from above
Time and again or had been swept during the long 25-mile riesha in by streama, The bones had ritte back to Peking curious soldiers
Percy Pitt Conducting the B.B.C. been cemented together into a solid, stopped him and asked what he was "My Heart Stond Still" (Rodgers),
Wireless Symphony Orchestra. mass by lime, and Dr. Andersson, carrying, but he got through at "The Birth of the Blues" recognising that they would yield last with the precious fragment, de- much valuable information regard-livering it personally to Dr. David-
(Henderson), Pianoforte Solo, ing the earlier fauna and climatic
Edythe Baker. son Black at the Rockefeller hos-Vienna Maidens, Waltz."
"Nights Of Frangrance" (Ziehrer), ́ conditions of the region, arranged pital. to have them excavated and studied.
New Concert Orchestra. This work was entrusted to Dr. 0.
A Quantity of Remains "Backshee" (Bennett), koutien last autums, and again Regimental March Medley."
Dr. Bohlin went back to Chou-"The Idol's Tongue" (Bennett),
Talking by Billy Bennett. worked unsuccessfully under trying conditions for several months.
Zdarsky, a German palaeontologist, him
who took the material with to Upsala. in Sweden. aince facilities for a proper study, and comparison were lacking in Peking
Very Primitive Man During the process of excavation Dr. Andersson noted the presence of numerous quartz chips, ap- parently foreign to the region, and he suggested that, in spite of their crudity, these might represent stone. implements of very primitive man, and that hence there waз a pos- sibility of finding the remains of such a man in these deposits. His prediction was verified strikingly during the study of the material at Upsala. Two molar teeth of human type, one of an adult and the other of a child, were discovered by Dr. Zdansky embedded in the bone deposit, and it was 8000 established beyond doubt that these represented creatures contempor- aneous with the "Piltdown Man" of Great Britain and the Pithecan- thropus Erectus or "Ape Man,"
found in Central Java.
Most Important Tooth
Valse Des Fleurs.
Danse Arabe.
Dange De La Fee Dragee.
Danse Des Mirktons. Danse Chinoise.
Danse Russe. Trepak,
TIGER CLOCK
The Regimental Band of H.M. increasingly difficult to keep on with "(a) Waltz in A Flat; (b) Spring the temperature dropped it became "Dream Of Love" (Liszt),
Grenadier Guards
the job, ad he had to sit at meals| with his hands gloved to prevent
Song." Pianoforte Solo, them from freezing.
William Murdoch. new could be found, and again he
Nothing"Waltz Medley" (arr. Debroy
Somers), was ordered back to Peking. on the very last day, when sifting But
Debroy Somers Band. 10.30 pm-Close Down. through the, loose sand which had been thrown out from the excava tions, he came upon a jaw with the teeth atill in place. Since then We all know the cuckoo clock, there have been found parts of a but only recently have we heard of number of skeletons, including a tiger clock. several more jaws and teeth,
One of these hasi brain case, and what may prove to India. be leg and other bones. scientists are hopeful that it may be bronze tiger which roars the hours. The On the clock is mounted a large possible to get out a complete the voice-being-a-copy of that of skeleton, in which case it will be the Sultan, the huge tiger in the Zoo. first Eollthic, or "ald Stone Age," skeleton ever discovered.
These later ands have proved that Berthing :Officer at Woosung, hay- Mr. A. C. Kella, lately Customs there is no longer any possible ing been transferred question of the accuracy of the Shanghai, he and Mrs. Kella have for duty at judgment based upon the discovery
a been made in London, we learn, for
of the first teeth, and that a diane into residence at 309 Route tinct type of primitive man has Cardinal Mercier.
Dr.
In view of this important dia- covery a further investigation of been located It has been definitely the Choukoutien alte was decided established that the "Peking Man" upon by the Chinese Geological was more primitive than half a dozen individuals have been Survey, working in close co-opera- any hitherto known tlon with the Rockefeller Founda- in
genus found; (4) its significant location the strictly human line, tion, and the work
at the eastern end of the Eurasiatic was put in but was charge of Dr. C. Li, of the Survey though not of the genus homo to down Man" at the western end; (5) definitely human. continent, as opposed to the "Pilt- staff, and Dr. Birger Bohlin, which we of to-day belong.
મૈં Swedish palaeontologist. To Dr. cording to Dr. Davidson Black, this human than the "Piltdown Man," Ac the teeth reveal it to be more Davidson Black, a brilliant young
creature had a well-developed skull, which was more ape than human. Canadian scientist, was entrusted revealing a brain of good size, and the study of any further human his teeth were definitely human,
Type Uncertain *** material that might be found.
even though his jaw was of charac-"Peking Man" at a million years. Dr. Grabau places the ago of the Shortly before the cless of the first teristic ape formation.
Compar Where the type originated is stili season's feld work the second re
ed with the "Java Ape-man," he uncertain, but most of the scientists markable discovery was made. This WAS distinctly more advanced who have had the question under was a perfect molar tooth of a child which, in Dr. Davidson Black's study feel that the probabilities about nine years old, which was opinion, confirms the view that the taken by Dr. Bohlin directly out of "Java Ape-man" was an off-shoot Grabau himself thinks that the
point to Central Asia. the rock material in place. An from the main human line who most likely region for the origin elaborate study of it by Dr. Black, wandered off south and lost touch of man is the Sinklang basin. Pro- Including X-ray examinations and a with the parent stock, rather than hably, Dr. Grabau considers, the minute. comparison with the cor an intermediary link beween anting up of the Himalayas twenty responding tooth of a modern Chi.thropold ape and man. nese child of the same age, showed.
million years ago divided into two A Million Years Old unmistakably that the scientists had
groups and separated by an Impera Undoubtedly, in the opinion of able barrier the highly developed stumbled upon an entirely new type Dr. Grabau, this la "the most im-anthropoid apes which lived in the portant And of early human re well-forested regions which then mains yet made. Man is more entitled to be regarded far Into Central Asia.
The Peking stretched from India across Tibet as the missing fink than anything era group continued with little previously found." this view he gives these reasons: there was little or no change
"In support of or no essential modification, because (1) The "Peking Man" was found the environment, but those left north by scientifically trained investi of the barrier were forced to gators who knew precisely what develop or die. Long accustomed they were looking for, whereas both to live among the trees, they were the "Piltdown" Man and the forced, as the disappearance of the A dramatle account of the finding "Heidelberg Man" were found ac-forest gradually dried up the soll, of what he described as "the most cidentally by workmen, (2) the reto adventure out into the open and important, tooth in the world" and mains were found in association to contend with a more rigorous of its significance as a milestone with a wealth of contemporaneous climate. Subjected to such adverse In the development of the human material, including fossilised bones environment, the weaklings soon race was given by Dr. Aradaus of animals whose position in the succumbed, but the
stronger
of hominid, neither baman nor ape, though closer to the former than to the latter. Studies also showed that the creature was distinct from the "Piltdown-Man," though closely related to it. The tooth was ex hibited by Dr. Black both in Europe and America, and now reposes in the collection of the Chinese Geological Survey at Peking...
Dramatic Account
The south-
In
W. Grabau, for sighteen years geological scale is definitely known; struggled on and gradually dis Professor of Palaeontology at 1 (8) remains of more than one in- covered how to adapt themselves to the University of Columbia, dívidual-perhaps of as many as the new conditions.
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