The "Peking Leader" claims that the Chinese geologist, Br. W. C. Pei, recently made at Chowkoutien, '35 miles from Peking, a sensational scientific discovery in connect with the now famous "Peking Man" (Sixanthropus Pekinensis).
The paper states that Mr. Pei, working in the same quarries where were found pieces of jaw and several teeth which, after exhaustive study, were named Sinanthropus Pekinensis, has now discovered a complete unbroken skull of the same species which belongs to about the same period as the "Piltdown Man" and the "Java Apeman.'
Officials of the Geological Sur-voy of China, under whose auspices, with these of the Peking Union Medical College, investigations have been carried on at Chowkoutien for several years, are very. reticent, but they "admit that a most important discovery will be announced at their meeting on December 23.—Reuter,
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