Show lAY BE THE MISSING L1l Hcmnina of l Hitherto Unknown Animal An-imal Konml in Java The theory maintained by Lamark Geoffroy SaintHilaire and other scientists scien-tists and so well expounded by Charles Darwin n his Origin of Species that all animal and vegetable organisms past and present have descended by successive transformations by reason of the influences of natural selection the struggle for existence and the survival sur-vival of the fittest from three or lour original types and probably from a single sin-gle primitive type has always been embarrassed or frustrated by the great argument of its adversaries that i al the species have thus developed by gradual evolution then there should be extant as there are not some surviving surviv-ing examples of these slow but constant con-stant modifications If the statement of a recent Paris writer is entitled to credit says a writer in the Baltimore Sun the grand desideratum of n complete and durable chain wherewith to bridge the abyss between the existing human race and their remote and hitherto unsuccessfully unsuccess-fully trailed brute progenitors has been supplied by a surgeon of the Dutch colonial army named Dubois who In the course of excavations in the environs en-virons of Joulong Agoung on the island of Java lately exhumed some important remains of n previously unknown un-known animal I Is of the monke family and resembles man so aaton I ishingly in form and structure as to thrill with enthusiasm the soul of every ev-ery true Darwinian The mixed ar ticulatinos of the bones which according ac-cording to the Darwin school prove the close racial relationship existing between the primary human skeletons and those of the higher monkeys are I I exhibited with remarkable expression In Dubois animal The remains of the latter thus far discovered consist of a skull a molar tooth and a femur or thigh bone The latter has the same form and size as the adult human femur fe-mur and thereby proves that the animal ani-mal from which it came could maintain main-tain the vertical posture when walking walk-ing Furthermore the anthropometric study of the remains of this once living liv-ing being has convinced Dr Dubois that it possessed the stature of the mature ma-ture human body while ha has found skull to be almost identical the ientcal with the cranium of man In the opinion of the learned doctor the development of the jaw which is still in a fair state of preservation and the shape and arrangement I ar-rangement of the dental apparatus so I fatS n may be inferred from the single sin-gle tooth obtained indicate that the I living animal to which these InterestIng I I interest-ing relics belonged was capable of uttering I ut-tering articulate sounds and words I I This alleged discovery of the missing I link is anxiously discussed by the anthropologists an-thropologists of Paris and the man I monkey devised by ardent theorists to I I I some of the defenders of the doctrine of evolution appears no longer a mere logical deduction but a tangible reality I real-ity |