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DR. BLACK'S THEORIES QUESTIONED.
"THE MISSING LINK."
Pacing to and fro in the library of his old-fashioned house in Pota- dam, Dr. Welnert, of the Anthro- pological Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, challenged Dr. Black's contentions that the fossil remains discovered at Peking are the bones of an early type of humanity and therefore that there in reason to believe that the cradle of the human race was in Eastern Asia.
From the photos of the finds and from the descriptions of them sent to us by Dr. Black: I am convinced that the bones are the remains of a creature, hali human, half ape, or to give him his scientific name,
pithecanthropus erectus, Haec-
kel's missing, link which, first ccared to be missing when Profes- sor Dubois made his important discovery of a large-sized skull in Java forty years ago.
Professor Dubois' Action." Dr. Weinert declares that but for the inexplicable attitude of Professor Dubois, the identity of the Peking and Java finds would have been immediately accepted by anthropologists. When Professor Dubois brought his previous dis- covery back with him to Holland, he elected to keep it in the seclu- rion of his own private archeolo gical collection. It needed a hint from the Dutch Government to the effect that the Java find could not he regarded as private property, before Professor Dubois was duced to allow other scientists to study the skull.
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"I happen to be the first an thropologist to be permitted to make a thorough-going study of the Java skull. The results of my investigations have been published in a trentine, supplied with a number of excellent photos. A glance at these photos is sufficient to reveal the identity of this skull with that found at Peking. Indeed, superimposing and comparing the drawings of the outlines of the two skulls show the same retreat- Ing forehead, the same flat top to the cranium, and the dorsal pro- trusion not found in the human skull, not even in the skull of the Neandertha! Man."
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being an early member of the human family (home saplens), is Dr. Weinert's conclusion.
As regards Asia's clolms to
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being the original cradle of the Benk, wiro human race, Dr. Weinert states Bank, on demand... 11 that German:, anthropologists aro Bank, 4 months' aight 11 1/16 more and more inclined to accept Credits, 4 monthe" the evidence that goes to prove that the ancestral stock made its Documentary, a
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A young anthropologist, L. 'S. B. Leakey, who has spent four years making excavations in the caves of of the Rift Valley, Kenya Colony, has recently arrived in Berlin and submitted some of his Ands to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Those fossil bones are now being examin- ed by German experts. It is ex- pected that a pronouncemen. of major importance will shortly be made.
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Karachi, Jan. 2. Why the walls of Jericho col- lapsed before the armies of Joshua | On demand is a question which the expedition Sovereigna to Palestine, led by Professor John Gerstand, of Liverpool University, will try to answer..
Sir Charles Marston, who with the late Lord Melchett, financed the expedition, said that last year's work revealed the fact that the walls of Jericho did actually col- lapse.
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Haeckel Was Right? Dr. Weinert went on to say that the Peking finds bear out the theory first set up by Ernst Haec- kel that the human race is descend- ed from an animal species that was neither monkey nor link in the chain of evolution. It There is decrease of 45,659 in was believed that these creatures the Indian population and an in-
A big falling off in the Asiatic population of Malaya is revealed by the Malaya migration statistics for man, a 1980.
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Inhabited that part of the world crease of 28,586 in the Chinese REQUEST REFUSED.
which is now Further India and population.' the Malayan Archipelago. Pro- During the year 1990 the number fessor Dubois's discovery gave of Chinese arrivals in Malaya was confirmation to this belief. Dr. 843,502 and the departures 314.916 Black's finds are only additional] The number of Indian arrivals was evidence, Dr Weinert maintains
The 69,657 and
number of de- "We now know," continued Dr. partures 115,916. Weinert, "that these half human A reduction in the Asiatic popu animals, who lived in the Earlylation is shown in the December Ice Age, moved about over the atatiaiica. The Chinese decreased whole surface of the earth. The by 8,225 and the Indian by 8,972, Peking find is almost identical The number of Chinese im- with that found at Piltdown, in migrant deck passengers disembark | South England. In the case of the ing at Singaptre for the month of Piltdown fossil, consisting of the December, 1930, was 6,875. For top part of a skull and a jaw bone, the same period In 1929, the num- whereas English anthropologists ber was 19,221.. consider they belong together, here in Germany wo hold the opinion .President Cleveland that coincidenco played a part in
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As the human-like apo has a skull | list when the proprietor of an It is further reported from capacity of 500 cubic centimetres "uptown; speakeasy" was riddled that of the normal human with seven builets in his own bar- being a capacity of 1,500 cubic room after a desperate pistel battle centimetres, it will be seen that with five rivals, who resented his the Java skull les in the middle operations in their territory"!" between man and monkey.
The Masasalna rushed into the place forcing a taxi-driver to enter first as a shield for themselves and fired volley after volley, splinteer- ing woodwork and mirrors in the room. The victim was found by the polles mortally wounded, with a revolver under him.
... Not A Human. Even if Sinanthropus.pekinensis is regarded as a type of early humanity, derived from a-member of the chimpanzee family like the pithecanthropus, It varies so great- ly from the Neanderthal Man, that
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