Peiping, Nov. 24.
Professor Franz Weldenrelch, of the Peiping Union Medical College, who, in the study of the Sinanthropus. Pekinensis, has succeeded the late, Dr, Davidson Black, produced to cor respondents to-day the family of the "Peking Man," consisting of four complete brain cases, three of which probably belonged 16 father, mother, and son. He also exhibited two skulls recently discovered at Chowkow lien, 35 miles west of Peiping, which, "with two previously "dis: covered, as well as many pieces of skulls, jaws, and about 100 teeth, he tleserited as the richest material connected with early man. ever discovered.
The new skulls belong to an adult man and. an adult woman, The woman's skull shows little anatomical difference from the Pithecanthropus, whereas the male skull is nearer the neanderthal man, Professor Weldenreich considers the total finds of the "Peking Man" represent the - links between the Pithecanhtropus and the European Neanderthal man. He declared the new discoveries will withstand any Possible objection to the view that man is descended from the authro-Poidlike hominid type. "The skull and tooth remains of Sinanthropus at our disposal," he added, "con stitute the richest and most complete collection of human fossils ever recorded and the most unique in every respec"
The new skulls were found by Mr.
Chia, of the National Geological Survey of China—Reuter. schools or as prizes for deserving students, 'A survey conducted recently lists the {otal number of licenced opium smokers in Szechuen to total 1,300,000 approximately. 'The present stock of opium, however, has now been reduced' to 17,000'piculs in the whole province, which can hardly be con-Sidered sufficient tomeer the demand.
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