His story told in halting English phrases was highly dramatie:—how he and his party had been ordered back to the city because the bitter cold was approaching and no man could work at excavations, how he begged for four more days, and on the very last afternoon he went down himself into the cave, dug a little, and, by a miracle, stumbled upon what he knew was the Jong-sought skull. 'Then came the scone, picturesque as any stage setting, of the lighting of three charcoal Draziers in the eave and the setting of the precious relic' on a pedestal in the midst of them so that the moisture in the bones should dry out, Otherwise the risk of breakage to the skull in the long cross country. trig to Peking would be increased. But thanks to the young discoverer's, ingenuity, it did arrive safely and lay peacefully upon the chairman's desk for us all to look at, After the meeting closed with a fow remarks on why the million-yeardd man must be genuine by Father Teilhard de Chardin, a distinguished member of the French Geological Society, a Jesuit and a ong, lean, man of remarkable personality, we gathered round the skull and learned much that cannot yet be officially told. For that fragile brown carapace still partly. embedded in the "travertine" or cement-like substance which has; guarded it from the air for so many Jeenturies, and looks like the shell of 8 tortoise, is not by any means the only find from the caves of Choukoution. There is a hint that what appears to be the bone of a real foot, is among the treasures. If this turns out to be true, and there seems, every likelihood that it will, the Peking man must have walked upright.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.