PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS (Erect See also:

• APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

Ape-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man)  , the name given by Dr See also:

• EUGENE

Eugene See also:

• DUBOIS
• DUBOIS, FRANCOIS CLEMENT THEODORE (1837– )
• DUBOIS, GUILLAUME (1656–1723)
• DUBOIS, JEAN ANTOINE (1765-1848)
• DUBOIS, PAUL (1829-1905)
• DUBOIS, PIERRE (c. 1250-c. 1312)

Dubois, of the Dutch See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army medical service, to the imaginary creature which he constructed from fossilized remains found by him in See also:

• JAVA

Java . These fragments consisted of a thigh-See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone, two See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth, and the upper See also:

• PART

part of a See also:

• SKULL

skull, and were unearthed in 1891-1892 on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the Bengawan See also:

• RIVER

River near Trinil . The skull appears to have been See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low and depressed with strong supraciliary ridges; the teeth are very large, and the femur is quite human . The teeth and skull were found together, the femur a few yards away a See also:

• YEAR

year afterwards . The discoverer, however, stated it as his belief that the fragments were portions of the same See also:

• SKELETON

skeleton and belonged to a creature See also:

• HALF

half-way between See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man and the higher apes and of the See also:

• PLEISTOCENE

Pleistocene See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . Much discussion followed the " find," and many authorities have given an See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion adverse to Dr Dubois's theory . The prevailing opinion is that the bones are human . They are not held to represent what has been called " the missing See also:

• LINK

link," bridging over the gulf between man and the apes; but almost all authorities are agreed that they constitute a further link in the See also:

• CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain, bringing man nearer his Simian prototype . L . Manouvrier concludes that Homo javanensis walked erect, was of about See also:

• MEDIUM

medium height, and was a true precursor, possibly a See also:

• DIRECT

direct ancestor, of man . He calls See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the fact that the See also:

• CRANIAL

cranial capacity decreases in proportion to the antiquity of the human skulls found, and that the pithecanthropus skull has a capacity of from goo to See also:

• ROOD (O.E. rod, a stick, another form of " rod, O.E. rodd, possibly cognate with Lat. rudis, a staff)

rood cc.—that is, " stands at the level of the smallest which have been occasionally found amongst the reputedly lowest See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage peoples." See Dubois, Pithecanthropus erectus (See also:

• BATAVIA

Batavia, 1894) ; a later See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper read by Dr Dubois before the See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin Anthropological Society was translated in the Smithsonian See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report for 1898 . Also a paper read by Dr D .

J . See also:

• CUNNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (c.1655-173o)
• CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN (1784-1842)
• CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM (1805-1861)

Cunningham before the Royal See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin Society, See also:

• JANUARY

January 23, 1895 (reported in Nature, See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 28, 1895); O . C . See also:

• MARSH (O. F. mersc, for merisc, a place full of "meres" or pools; cf. Ger. Meer, sea, Lat. mare)
• MARSH, ADAM (ADAM DE MARISCO) (d. c. 1258)
• MARSH, GEORGE PERKINS (1801-1882)
• MARSH, HERBERT (1757–1839)
• MARSH, NARCISSUS (1638-1713)
• MARSH, OTHNIEL CHARLES (1831-1899)

Marsh, SiO2 Al203 Fe20a MgO CaO Na2O See also:

• K20

K20 See also:

• H2O (combined)

H2O See also:

• MEISSEN

Meissen, See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony . 72.42 11.26 0.75 0.28 1.35 2.86 3.8o 7.64 Corriegills, See also:

• ARRAN
• ARRAN, EARLS OF

Arran 72.07 11.26 3.24 tr . 1.53 o•61 5.61 5°45 Scuir of Eigg, See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland 65.81 14.01 4'43 0'89 2'01 4.15 6'08 2'70 J See also:

• AMERICAN

American Journ. of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science (See also:

• JUNE

June 1896); " Le Pithecanthropus et l'origine de l'homme," in See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

Bull. de la See also:

• SOC

soc. d'anthrop. de See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris (1896), pp . 460-67 ; L . Manouvrier, " Discussion du pithecanthropus erectus comme precurseur de 1'homme," in Bull. soc. d'anthrop. de Paris (1895), pp . 13–47 and 216–220: L . Manouvrier, Bull. soc. d'anthrop . (1896), p . 419 sqq .

; " The Trinil Femur contrasted with the Femora of various savage and civilized races," in See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of Anat. and Physiol . (1896), xxxi. r seq.; See also:

• VIRCHOW, RUDOLF (1821-1902)

Virchow, " Ober den Pithecanthropus erectus Dubois " in Zeitschrift f . Ethnologie (1895), pp . 336, 435, 648 .