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PROF. EUGENE DUBOIS, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus, has recently published1 an account of fossil remains of man found in a deposit in Java, which he regards as of Pleistocene age. In 1890, the year before he made his first find of the remains of Pithecanthropus at Trinil, Prof. Dubois was led to search for traces of ancient man in the district of Wadjak, which lies some sixty miles to the south-east of the site where his more famous discovery was made. His attention had been, directed to the Wadjak district by the discovery there of a fossilised human skull in 1889. Further excavations of the terrace-like deposit in which the first skull had been found placed Prof. Dubois in possession of fragments of the jaws and cranium of a second individual, which were in the same state of mineralisation as the skull which first came to light.
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KEITH, A. The Discovery of Fossil Remains of Man in Java, Australia, and South Africa. Nature 106, 603–605 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106603a0
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