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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1935.
MAN'S EVOLUTION
H.K. MAY BE HOME
OF DISCOVERY
the
K. L. M. SERVICES
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT
OF FLIGHTS TO INDIA. The regularity-nialisties, for the to period front October 1, 101 October 1, 1986, give a most in- on the technien! leresting view development of the India-service of the K.L.M.
to
HORTICULTURE
LOCAL LINK WITH LONDON SOCIETY. Presiding at the Annual Mooting
Hongkong of the
Horticulturki Society, which was held in the board- room of Blessrs. Jardine, Mathonon,
Co., Ad
Bir William yesterday,
the warned members that ILornell
Annual continuance of the loan of the Volun loer Headquarters for the Show of Flowers and Vegetablen was something on which they could not count Indefinitely. Sir William alas commented on the falling off of ex- hibits at the Inst Show,
Amongst those present were Mr. T. Bagram (llon. Becretary), Mr. Tronkurer), Andrew Tse (Hon Lleut, Col. II. 1. 1. Dewbiggin, Mr.
Gro
F Mrs. II. Green, Mr. J. F.
Herklots, Mr. il, C. Jarrett, G. G. N.
(Committen),
J.
The clue to the evolution of An may lie in Hongkong or China, de clared Professor J. L. Shellshear in his address to the Hongkong Rotary "Recent discoveries
Originally the pilots were authorised Club yesterday, on relating to the evolution of man."
Irail of scientific shorten the flights as much as The long-followed
perfect safely would allow, and so research in Europe was shifting to we woo that during the winter-service at tan ten 1931-32
machines arrived the East, the Professor sald, and
day earlier brains and influence of Governments Batavia ono
than the and universities were concentrating actual schedule provided for. In the direction Batavia-Amsterdam It was here for new data..
by was introduced
oven made a habit of: only seven out The speaker Profesor
L. Forster, President of of 25 flights wore effected exactly ac
touk the Club,
who said that Professor cording to schedule, two of them
only 11 Shell hear was leaving the Colony 12 days, and the other 10 of 114
in an
average shortly for Australia. During his days, resulting
he had done day for ench flight. The K.L.M. in Hongkong stay
considered this, and as valuable archaeological and research
with work in conjunction
leading started the already for bamp R. E. Hoare,
April 1932, Robineon In bound machines authorities.
with a scheduled journey of nine with
Except
Cour days. arrived in time. In the direction the summer-service for 1932 only began in June, but then it seeme the ed much more difficult to follow now reliems, and various machinés
Average arrived with delay. The
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A.
C. Hall, Dr. Air, I. P
Mr. G.
Lath
Southern, Lieut. Col. M. II. Loguri, Mr. G. A. Harriman, Mrs. It. Pestonj, Mr. H. Green, Mr. F. C. Hall, Mr. Mrs. G. A. C. Herklots, Mr. J. Russell, 1. L. Dennys and Mr. C. B. Johnsen. Chairman's Speech
meeting.
the
In his talk Professor Shellshear sald that he had already packed his books when he was invited to speak, and his listeners must bear with him if he made any inaccuracies. He had inst nudressed the Rotary Club on the evolution of the human brain, and on that occasion had been able to show them a series of beautifully graded times appeared to be: Fastbound brain easta which were without any 9-4/5th days and Westbound D-1/5th William Ilornell said:
́ncemed | days. links." Then it had seemed "missing
to the In September of that year the hear they were getting to of the
origin of man and, winter-service started for the entire Rolution
of line, the Journey to be effected in 10 with the discovery of the Man Pekin, it was thought that a primitive days. Still, a few commanders found She had been found from which was their way to effect it in eight days, had been derived. Since then, how and 12 out of the 34 fights were ever, there had been recent finds in completed in 9 days. On May 1, 1943 different parts of the world which the summer service started, and the fights were to be done in uine days home- were of the utmost importance.
India-bound and eight inys hound.
(17
Scientists Setback Anthropologieal work had been in Kenya going on in Malaya and Colony which placed a different ligi
the subject. Scientists had had a sethack from Leakey whe, working in Kenya, had found a skuli which he said was homo rspiens, or present man, and further that it was Early Pleistocene period. Early Pleistocene was onything be tween 260 or 100 thousand years ago o one could imagine what a surprise
of the
this contention created.
The skull he found was recieved with considerable doubt, but Leakey went further and found fossil bits of the greatest Importance which he said were of homo sapiene and Early
type of homo sapiens.
day
Regularity
Es
Sir
Addressing Ladies and Gentlemen-The 30th. Annual Report of the Society is in your hands. The Report tells that the Annual Show of Flowers Vegetables which was held on February 23, 1986, was a great muc-
cess.
you
You will all, I think, endorse that. The falling off of exhibits to which the Committee invites atten tion is regrettable and must be re- medied.
I am sure that I have you all with ክነ when I ask you to endorse on be half of the Society as a whole the It-Colonel The winter-service for 193-4 wa Committee's thanks to
officors of the effected with extraordinary regularity. Dowbiggin and the The scheduled journey was 10 days, Defence Corps, to the Hon. the Ins and all return flights were done pector General of Police, to Captain record was bet-Davis and the officers of I. M. S. 10-1/5th tered still
the period from turing
Cornwall and to all others who help May 1 to the September 1, 1931, whened to make the Flower Show a suc all the nights were carried out, al- most to the minutes, according to the schedule of 734 days. The flights, numbering 40, of the winter service also resulted in a satisfactory Pervice
1031-
On June
the 12, 1936 was doubled and the time for each journey fixed at 5% days, and at the dante time entirely new material was taken into service: all this during an
the first months delays were
The loan of the Volunteer Hend- quarters menas depriving the De fence Corps of its training ground for about a fortnight and is there- fore a proposition to which the Com
accede, especially as the Corps mal Officer of the Corps cauanot is now larger than it was formerly. Lt.-Colonel Dowbiggin is one of the oldest and most zealous
Pleistocene. He also found anotherventionally henvy monsoon-season of the Society. fo was Prendas in
For himself, said the speaker. The mble, but from the
all
In
Tho
1923 and again in 1927. Other beginning places have, I understand, been tried, was rather doubtful of Lenkey's Ands.
August to the end of September but the best location for the Show is Head- They were the work of one man, and
went
the Volunteer well once more. very From these statistics it is clear undoubtedly toy should be such great weight could not be at-
and tached to his interpretation of
Dowbiggin and to the results of a team of scientista year, and also that the home-bound the affleurs of the Defence Corps for anatomical specimens and fossils as that the regularity increases year by
The resear
researches at Peiping, on the journeys are, as a rule, effected more the loan of the Headquarters. I warn
vlires- a team quickly than those in by a
members of the Society that the con- other hand, wore conducted
on. Therefore, the
schente
for the tinuance of this loan is something on of brilliant minds of international tion.
which they cannot count indefinitely. several flights during the 1036-
are tha fame. They
But sueient for the day represented
has been fixed at 53% days for the nationalities and had been workinen Westward journey, and six days for problems thereof. 10 years. Their evidence had carefully analysed and there was no the Eastward one. On the whole doubt that the Man of Pekin was of is shown that the duration of the the Early Pleistocene perior. It was lights has been abort halved during to note that he recently these four years, and this is a most of interest had a letter from one of his friends satisfactory result. who was engaged in the
research found
in which he said that they had
continu
Society's Amillation
The allation of the Society to the Royal Horticultural Society of Lon- don has added to the local Society's status and to the privileges of its nd-
mited to the Royal Horticultural Society's flower shows and to the ex- perimental gardens at Wisley. The average visitor to London from abroad does not even hear of these things and, if he does, he does not know how to cet about gelling access to
another nun. He was looking for TEN YEARS SENTENCE members. Members can now be ward to their paper with interest. The wark at Peiping w but it could not money; and he wished to emphasiso that point, because, in the event of search.being enrried out by scientists in Hongkong, he would like them to be interested and to help it forward. Local Anthropology
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Shi Kim-kiv, the woman who mur-them-By this affiliation Mr. PRICES: MATINEES, 20cts., 30cts., EVENINGS, 20cts, 30cta., Güets., 70cia. dered General Sun Chuen-fang, Bagram, for it is entirely his work, former war lord of Shanghai, was has provided the members of this sentenced at the local District Court Society with privileges of which they The speaker produced a skull of here yesterday to ten years' imprison-will not. I am sure, be slow to avail
themselves. which, he said, no less than ten had ment.
The Society needs_more_mentbers, been found recently in Java. They It will be recalled that the murder
citizens were of a definite species of man and occurred carly last month, and Shi In appealing for them I am not showed that the living ereatures had Kim-kiu, gave up herself to the police asking the much harassed
They immediately after
the crime. She of this Colony for further sacrifice, extraordinary evidently had low
and admitted that she had done it and but for the wider participation in u the had killed the war lord as a reprisal great coninon joy. "God Almighty," enormous necks. He had had privilege of seeing a brain cast of for the death of her father, who wrote Francis Bacon, "first planted a them, and they were evidently was killed by General Sun while the garden. And indeed it is the purest
of human pleasures, it is the greatest By THE BAND of the type in the line of man's It is reported that Shi was "quite without which buildings and palaces,
was serving under him.
refreshment to the spirits de satisfied when she heard the sen ware were things of
handiworks." grosa 'lan When questioned are but finite anthropologien interest. He, Lence announced.
Chairman then proposed and The the
speaker, had once gone all through by pressman after the Court session the Chinese chemist shops of Manila, yesterday whether he was going to Mr. Green seconded that the Report
ried
A.
Hongkeng and Canton with the dis- appeal to a higher Court, Shi said benimously,
coverer of the Man of Java, and hnd that she would consider the matter.-- found, among other things, a tooth Wah Kiu Yat Po.
of homo "unknown" and
might find important
the ancestry of mon.
по
La
passed with neclamation.
of men
ed. The proposal was car- Lady Southoru Elected Sir Willian Hornell moved that molar tootls=
Lady Southern be invited to become of an orang-outang which must have Government and the Ecole Francaise President of the Society. This was
about stood
Can- feet high. The ten ton universities, were doing their bras d'Extreme Orient, research was pro seconded by Mra. R. E. Hoare and ceeding in Siam and Java whilst the
Mr. H. L. Dennys then moved that to help forward scientific research, pritisk Government in Malaya were and it was well that all should show taking an interest which he felt was the out-going Committee be re- their interest. In
they bound to lead to some important dis elected est bloc, with the addition of Hongos n
Hornell, the out-going William Sir coveries in the near future.
Culural Development
President. Mrs. Pestonji reconded The Man of Java, which had been
Locally, the Rev.
Father D. J. Finn the motion, which was passed unani- described in the newspapers as the was known for his valuable research mously.
culture from of type of man's ancestors, had been on the development
Proposed by Mr. F. C. Hall and entirely deposed from that position because investigations had shown that early man, and he had a wide and seconded by Lieut. Col. M. H. Logan, comprehensive knowledge of this Mr. J.T. Bagram was re-elected Hon. he was of the Early or Middle Plais- tocene period, and, if that, was so, area. The evidence seemed to point Secretary and Mr. Andrew Tso, Hon ho must be merely an aberration a huge migratory movement from Treasurer of the Society.
"Manchuria southwards North
Before the meeting terminated. Lieut. Col. Dowbiggin proposed a The researches in Java had produced Japan. spoelmens of five different types conclusion, the speaker said ho vote of thanks to Mr. Bagram for the
confusion which showed how easily could arise. One of the types was was extremely grateful for his con- hard work he had put it on behalf nection with Rotary and felt that of the members of the Society. This very similar to a skull in Rhodesia, the movement did a great deal to was endorsed by the meeting with
to acclamation." buelnosa mon, whilst other akulls found counter bring together
and in-
for her election as Presi- parts on the opposite side of the their mutual advancement world.
would dient of the Society were returned He hoped that he terests. He Government Ald
have the pleasure of meeting them by Lady Southern, who promised that she would do her best for the Society sometime. of one speelmen following again somers, Wan thanked Instead
th during her term of office. after another, the whole of the Rotarian
Annual Flower Show ovidence seemed to point to the fact speaker for
and interesting. Th from which the other finds branched subject of ancestry was of peculiar their out without any linen relationship. interest to Chinese, but even Leakey had stated that homo sapiens long history was nothing compared was the oldest of the lot.
to the ages of the evolution of man France had lost her position of They were living in a place where being the home of the Original Mau, ancestry was not of great importance nowadays was but he believed that in America a mar to the Far East,
could hardly get a public appointment In Tilbury
a man of the unless he spoke of his forbears they found a homo piens type. It was too much relation to Adam! (Laughter),
Ho for Aosta, and they put it
his father with being a solit- down to a flaw in geological evidence! taxed was reminded of a child who
the mada man. "I Am" said
the
Washington, Dec. 17. father: There could be no doubt that
Daddy," said
An unconfirmed report. from the tho little ly related to homo sapions, but he, the
០៧១,
have Newport News announces the sign- ing of the contract for the construc speaker, thought that the origin of done any better?". (Laughter), man was getting older and older and Among the gueste present were Dr. tion of the new glant liner, United Leviathan. that these discoveries wore more Ceell Robertson, Shanghai, Mr. Wil- States, to repince the
son, Foochow; Cdr. H. T. White, and An official announcement in expect.
ed shortlyReuters Special Under the auspices of the Dutch Mr. A. B. Yule.
that somewhere there was an origina!} matter and makiniza hlghly technica
and
driftin
peculation
km
skulle found in England were close-, very proudly. Tan't you
offshoots,
in
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