Te the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cittna Day News"
Si—The Domei report from Peiping, dated January 19, regarding the alleged possible relationship between the now fanions "Peking Man" and the North American Indians, which appeared in the "North-China Daily News" and other local newspapers of Sanvary 20, is altogether misteadiny "According to what Dr. Weidenrei is reported lo have said, types "American Indians with the' appearance fof the men whose skulls have been found in the Upper Cave at Choukou-{len are not uncommon; but it should be noted that the men whose mains have been found in the Upper Cave at Chouxoutien did not belong to the type known as "Peking Man," that ts Santhropus pekinensis, 'The men of the Upper Cave were repre sentatives of true Homo, and were of a much later period than the ce siderably more primitive "Peping Man," and it is amongst the' remains of these later men that the types Similar to types found amongst the North American Indians. occur, and which may have represented the an-cesters of the latter on migration from Asia to. North America by way of the land bridge that once extended Between North-eastern Siberia and Alaska in the region now occupied by the Bering Sea, 'Nothing reported to have been said by Dr. Weldenreich in the Domei dispatch indicates that Peking Man may be looked upon as an ancestor of the North American Indians, although in previous announcements' he has. sugested that there are certain features fu the teeth and jaw bones of Peking Man which may indicate. that the latter was in. the ancestral line of the so-called Mongoloid races.
Anmitun oe C. SowEnDy, Shanghai, Jan, 21.
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