“Reputed to be the world's greatest living expert on East African Anthropology Dr.Leakey has searched for many years to prove his belief that man originated in Africa.

      “Now Curator of the Croydon Museum of Natural History in Nairobi, Kenya, he told the Pan-African Congress of Pre-History here, on Saturday that his wife found the human fossils among animal remains in the Olduwal George in Tanganyika on July 17.

      “Crude tools were also found which suggested some form of human culture, he said. A reconstruction of the bones showed a skull which was calculated to date from the second half of the Pleistocene era, 600,000 years ago.

      “By comparison, Peking Man, one of the most famous of pre-historic relics, was estimated to have lived 500,000 years ago.

      “Dr. Leakey said the cerebral capacity of the skull was 600 cubic centimeters (36.614 cubic inches) compared to the present-day capacity of 1,450 cubic centimeters (88.485 cubic inches).”¹

Johannesburg

      “Discovery of the adult skull of a man-ape, who lived over a million years ago was announced here on Wednesday night by the famous anthropologist, Prof. Raymond Dart.

      “Prof. Dart was speaking at a meeting called to establish in his honour, an institute for study of man in Africa.

      “He said the skull was the most complete ever unearthed at Makapanasgat, in northern Transvaal where man-ape fossils have been dug up for the past 14 years.

      “The rock in which the latest skull was embedded was among 50,000 tons of debris left by lime-stone miners, he added. With the skull in the rock was also the skull of a haboon.

      “The proves our surmise that these man-apes were cannibalistic,” the Professor said. “Only skulls are there, and this