“ The skull appears to have been 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 year afterwards. The discoverer, however, stated it as his belief that the fragments were portions of the same skeleton and belonged to a creature half-way between man and the higher apes and of the Pleistocene age. Much discussion followed the “find,” and many authorities have given an 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 link,” bridging over the gulf between man and the apes, but almost all authorities are agreed that they constitute a further link in the chain, bringing man nearer his Simian prototype. ”

“ O. C. Marsh, American Journ. of Science (June 1896) ; “Le Pithecanthropus et l’origine de l’homme,” in Bull. de la soc. d’anthrop. de Paris (1896) , pp. 460–67; L. Manouvrier, “Discussion du pithecanthropus erectus comme précurseur de l’homme,” in Bull. soc. ”