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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

To-day"

(May 7)

Hong Kong Cricket Club, Ex- hibition Tennis, E. . Andrews,

4.30 p.m.

Entries Close for Fifth Extru Jace Meeting, noon.

New Wing of European Y.M.C.A to be opened by H.E, the Governor,

5,30 p.m.

"New Moon." Queen's Theatre: World Theatre The Mysterious' Rider.".

Central Theatre: "Ladies Love Brutes."

King's Theatre: The Playbos of Paris."

Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing Theatre. 8 p.m.

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Jumble Sale, Union Church, Ken- redy Road.

Dances: Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

European Mail.-Inward: Europe via Suez (Kashmir).,

Friday. (May 9.)

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MORE ABOUT MAN'S ORIGIN.

SIR ARTHUR KEITH'S LATEST THEORISING.

SIGNIFICANCE OF PEIPING AND JAVA

'MEN."

was

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Java man, as Sir Arthur puts it, How came er by our brains? Whey camo we by our brains?

"approaching the threshold of With gnawing persistence these humanity." Peiping man was two questions crop up throughout the point of crossing it." Sir Arthur Keith's book "New.

They were, in short, not quite Discoveries Relating to the Anti-Men, but Near-Men; they had quity of Man (Williams and made the evolutionary jump. Norgate, £1 18.), writes Mr. Wm. Ebbut in the Neira Chronicle.

Their contemporary in England was the owner of the Piltdown skull who had already a brain the equal in size of many modern human

For him the evolution of the emall brain into the great one was already an ancient story,

The human brain, he tells us, is the most complex structure in the whole realm of nature, Man is beings. what he is because of his brain. The essential problems of man's evolution is the remarkable expan sion of his brain in size and com: plexity of power. It greatly ex- ceeds that of all the apes and their kin. It has made man the domin. Cher Clark Cup (Hockey) Comint animal of the world,

The astounding feature of the petition: Winners (H. KL.H.C.)

human brain is the rapidity of its The Rest, King's Park, 5:15 p.m.

growth in babyhood. At birth the and presentation of prizes.

Queen's Theatre: Now. Moon." gorilla's brain approaches the World Theatre: "The Mysterious human size, but while the brain of Bider,"

the baby nearly trebles itself in the Central Theatre: Love Among first year, that of the gorilla has the Millionaires."

added less than a third. to its

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Man develops his brain as he Theatre, 8 p.m.

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European Mail:-Outward: Europe ria Siberia (Empr. of Rus sia), 30 a.m.

Saturday.

(May 9,) Australian Federal Parliament opened 1901.

Queen's Thentre: Flower,"

"Passion

World Theatre: The Mysterious Rider."

Central Theatre: "Love Amons The Millionaire."

International Festival of Folk Dance and Song, Diocesan Girls? School, 3.13.

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To put it into figures. Wherever the human brain has fallen below 900 cubic centimetres, the owner has been idiot or imbecile. But no anthropoids-gorillas, chimpanzees, or orange-have brains that rise above 650 cubic centimetres.

The crucial phase in human evolutious," says Sir Arthur, "wag the passage from the highest anthro poid lavel to the lowest human level,"

The Leap to Manhood. The famous Taungs skull is rele- gated to the apes beenuse of its brain. Peiping man, the latest spoch-making discovery, is man by reason (among other things) of his brain and his chin-that ball-mark

Mei Lao Feng at Ko Shingof the human. Theatre, 8p.m.

Sacred Hearts School Sports. Kowloon Football Club ground.

Entries for Lawn Bowls Singles Championship close.

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Peiping man's contemporary a quarter of a million years ago was Javi man: both had small brains. Both are, it seems, among the missing links," but in different degrees.

Incidentally, Sir Arthur Keith believes that the skull discovered in London on the site of the new. Lloyd's in Leaden-hall-street is a Inter, scion of the Piltdown stock. Ha suggests, therefore, that Pilt- down man may even be the long- sought ancestor of the modern

world..

To return to the leap from the anthropoid to the human brain.

Sir Arthur Keith points out that the size of the brain varies come hurman brains are exceptionally targe. If we knew the cause of in- dividual fluctuations "we should be on the road to discover how man came, by his big brain."

An Epoch-Making Suggestion, Here is a suggestion that goes a little further on the road. It is & matter of medical experience that disorders of various gland's notably the pituitary, (which is within the skull), cause disorders of growth. This giants are produced and men with huge skulls like that of the. fossil Rhodesian man: thus the Caucasian face is sometimes endow. ed with the characteristic nose of the Mangal or the negro."

-Sir Arthur suggests that the effects produced in the modern acromegalic by pathological or dis- eased action were produced in primitive mau by a normal or phy- siological action.

In fact, 'the growth of the human body and its racial dif ferentiation are controlled by a glandular machinery, and when we have found out how this machinery works we shall have obtained a key to the manner in which new types of mankind have been produced in the course of evolution."

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