. The literary digest. -body and are without interest in a case where the evidence isentirely anatomical. We shall dwell particularly on the skulls. The chief point of differences, as brought out by M. Cligny,are the prominent face and small skull of the monkey as com-pared with mans smaller face and larger skull. These points arebrought out by measurements of the facial angles (see Figs, i to3) and of the cranial capacity. Notwithstanding these great differ-ences, scientists have yet quarreled not only over the Java skullnow under consideration, but over others. M. Cligny reminds usparticular
. The literary digest. -body and are without interest in a case where the evidence isentirely anatomical. We shall dwell particularly on the skulls. The chief point of differences, as brought out by M. Cligny,are the prominent face and small skull of the monkey as com-pared with mans smaller face and larger skull. These points arebrought out by measurements of the facial angles (see Figs, i to3) and of the cranial capacity. Notwithstanding these great differ-ences, scientists have yet quarreled not only over the Java skullnow under consideration, but over others. M. Cligny reminds usparticularly of the remains found in the Neanderthal in 1856 (seeFig. 4). Study of this latter and of other similar remains havenow, he believes, established the fact that there once existed in Vol. XVI., No. 1] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 15 Europe a human race differing from all present races and ethni-cally inferior to the most degraded tribes of Africa or Java skull apparently was that of a creature still lower in the. Says M. Cligny, FIG. 4- ?ethnical scale. Was it a monkey or a man?summing up the evidence : The skull is that of a primate ; no doubt on this point is possi-ble. It was surely an adult. The skull is extraordinarily large for that of a monkeyand extraordinarily smallfor that of a man. . .We seem to have strucka mean between the twolimits that we havedrawn between ape and man In a word, the Javafossil resembles in forma pithecoid [ape-like]human skull, but it dif-fers from this by the sur-prising intensity of its
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