The Archive · 1930

Only A Missing Link

"The Peking mai Tong way! from being the Missing Link, if term. issing link but the that unsatisfactory

remote progenitors of man will be found in much older strata. The exact place is uncertain but I'am convinced it will be somewhere on the Asiatic Plateau, "Dr. Black and Dr. Crabau believe that Chinese Turkestan is the most propable spot. I favour Mongolia. It is only by intensive exploration that the question can said the brain capacity was s0 be tied. Meanwhile science has much. Another contended that he received a tremendous incentive for was all wrong. The literature on further research. The world will the subject is enormous. await with eagerness the result of ina short time Dr. Davidson Dr. Black's study of this priceless Black will tell us exactly what was material. the brain capacity of the Peking "Z, for one, confidently expect He will make a cast of the that" continued explorations of the of the skull. Prom study-Chow Kou-tien deposit will reveal ing this perfect reproduction of the There is every Drain he will know just hoW far jape. The specimens fon the road to human intel from the cave are so beautifully the Peking man had gon preserved that it will be strange if swelling in the forehead promises other bones are not brought to interesting results, Already th light.

Peking man had begun to think, "Again I most heartily congratu-The Ape-like Jaw late the discovers of the Peking Not "only will this discovery man their wish much new information as suecess."—Reuter,

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