An Application of the Rules of Zoological Nomenclature

Abstract

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER, Jun., has published (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. lxv., No. 12, November 24, 1915) the results of his investigation of a set of casts of the famous Piltdown fossils as compared with a large series of actual anthropoid and human skulls. Modern casts are made with great accuracy, and Mr. Miller is a competent and experienced authority on the skulls and teeth of mammals. He confirms the doubt already stated by many investigators as to whether or no the Piltdown lower jaw belongs to the same individual as the Piltdown skull, and goes further in the discrimination of the anthropoid character which has been obvious to all the investigators. He admits that the skull is human, but decides that the lower jaw is that of an extinct chimpanzee.