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...charge of the Choukoutien site (where digging has been seriously interfered with by the Sino-Japanese war) is an expatriate German Jew, Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Rockefeller-endowed Peiping Union Medical College. No. 1 man in Java is an expatriate German Gentile, Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Of late these earnest anthropologists have shown an increasing interest in each other's doings, and have tended to ignore the heterodox mutterings of old Dr. Dubois...
...Koenigswald found a second Pithecanthropus skull in Java, resembling the Dubois skull "as closely as one egg another." He discovered a third in 1938, a fourth in 1939, including the first good piece of an upper jawbone. Now that several good specimens of each ancient type were available, Weidenreich and Koenigswald got together and wrote a joint article for the British journal Nature, which last week reached the eager hands of U. S. anthropologists...
From Burma the expedition will travel by airplane to Singapore and Bandeong Java. There, joining forces with Dr. Halph von Koenigswald, they will explore new sites along the Solo River, where last year von Koenigswald discovered the skull of what is probably the oldest human in the world, a baby of 700,000 years...
With the addition of de Chardin and von Koenigswald it promises to discover further evidence of man's age, origin, and the animals that existed with or before...