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On 24 November 1890, a few months after the beginning of the field investigations on Java, an extraordinary discovery was made at Kedoeng Broeboes, which Dubois described as follows:
Amidst the remains of typical representatives of the fauna concerned, and in the same layer of sandstone-like andesitic tufa, a human fossil was found, the right side of the chin of a lower jaw with the sockets of the canine tooth and of the first and second premolar.1
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[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (4th quarter 1890), 1891, 15.
[Dubois], “Voorloopig Bericht”, 1891, 94–95.
[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (3rd quarter 1891), 1892, 13–14.
Ibid. (4th quarter 1891), 1892, 13.
Ibid., 13–14.
Flower and Lydekker, Introduction, 738.
See Lydekker, “Siwalik Mammalia”, 4.
[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (4th quarter 1891), 1892, 14–15.
[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (3rd quarter 1892), 1893, 10.
Ibid., 12–13.
[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (3rd quarter 1892), 1893, 11.
Idem.
Ibid., 11, 14.
[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (3rd quarter 1892), 1893, 11.
Dubois, Pithecanthropus erectus, 1894, 10–11.
[Dubois], “Palaeontologische onderzoekingen” (4th quarter 1892), 1893, 11.
Dubois, Pithecanthropus erectus, 1894, 1.
Idem.
Ibid., 2.
Idem.
Ibid., 2–6.
Ibid., 6.
Ibid., 7.
Ibid., 10–13. See also note 21.
Idem.
Ibid., 13–16.
Ibid., 16–23, especially 23.
Ibid., 23–26.
Ibid., 18.
Ibid., 26–27.
Ibid., 28.
Ibid., 29–31.
Ibid., 31.
Ibid., 32–33.
Ibid., 34.
Ibid., 34–35.
Ibid., 35–36.
Ibid., 36.
Ibid., 37. Dubois referred here to a lecture which D.G. Brinton was supposed to have given at the American Asssociation for the Advancement of Science in 1893. There must have been a mistake here, since Brinton did not give a lecture of this kind. I have been unable to discover what Dubois did actually mean.
Ibid., 37–39.
Idem.
De Puydt and Lohest, l’Homme contemporain du mammouth a Spy; Fraipont and Lohest, “La race humaine de Néanderthal”.
Dubois, Pithecanthropus erectus, 1894, 31.
Dubois, ibid., 12.
In an interview in 1938 (Anon., “Prof. Dubois blikt over zijn leven terug”) Dubois observed that, during his time in the East Indies, Hugo de Vries kept him informed on his “ideas about the mutation theory.” This suggests that Dubois could have derived his ideas about ‘evolution per saltum’ partly from De Vries. The latter published his mutation theory only after the turn of the century, but the Oenothera investigations had already been begun in the later 1880’s. In 1888 De Vries believed that he had discovered the first macromutations (‘monstrosities’ as they were then called) in his cultures (see De Veer, Hugo de Vries, 147–171). Nothing more can be said with any certainty about Dubois’ contacts with De Vries during his stay in the East Indies. Only one letter has survived from all their correspondence in the relevant period, a letter from Dubois on 9 November 1894, thanking De Vries for an offprint. (A transcript of this letter is held in the Dubois Collection. No letters from the period in question are available in the Hugo de Vries laboratory.) We can however gather from Dubois’ letter that he and De Vries regularly sent each other their publications.
Di Gregorio, “The Dinosaur Connection”; Huxley’s Place in Natural Science, 65–68. See also Bartholomew, “Huxley’s Defence of Darwin”.
Quoted in Walther and Heberer, Im Banne Ernst Haeckels, 149.
Bernsen, Dagboek III, 18 January 1932.
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Theunissen, B. (1989). Pithecanthropus Erectus. In: Eugène Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2209-9_4
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