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Dubois on his Critics.

The publication of Dr Dubois' elaborate report on the Java human remains has called forth a large amount of criticism from a number of the most eminent anthropologists throughout Europe. In an article in the Anatomischer Anzeiger (vol. xii., 1896) he classifies his reviewers under three groups, according as they have declared themselves in favour of one or other of the following interpretations put on the anatomical features of the calvaria.

I. 2. 3.

Those who regard the skull as human :— W. Turner, Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1895, vol. xxix., pp. 424-45. D. J. Cunningham, Nature, vol. ii., 1895, p.424-45. A. Keith, Science Progress, vol. iii., p. 348 ; Proc. Anat. Soc., February 1895. R. Lydekker, Nature, vol. ii., p. 291. Rud. Martin, Globus, vol. Ixvii., p. 213. P. Matschie, Naturwissensch. Wochenschr., vol. x., p. 81. P. Topinard, L'Anthropologie, vol. vi., p. 605. Those who regard the skull as simian :— R. Virchow, Verhand. Berliner Anth. GeseL, 1895, pp.81, 336, 435 ; Die Nation, 1895, P-53. W. Krause, ibid., p. 78. W. Waldeyer, ibid., p. 88 ; Anth. Congress Kassel, 1895. O. Hamann, Gegenwart, January 1895. H. Ten Kate, Nederlandsch Koloniaal Centraalblad, 1895, p. 128. Those who regard the skull as a transitional form :— E. Dubois, Jaarboek v. h. Mynwezen in Nederlandsch Indie, 1892 ; Pithecanthropus erectus, etc., Batavia, 1894 ; Leidener Zool. Cong., 1st September 1895 ; Roy. Dublin Society, 2Oth November 1895 ; Anth. Inst. of Great Britain and Ireland, 25th November 1895 ; Berliner Gesellschaft für Anth., i4th December 1895, etc. L. Manouvrier, Bull. Soc. d'Anthrop., vol. vi., 4th series ; Revue Scientifique, vol. v., 4th series, 1896, pp. 289-99.