DE CHARDIN SPEAKS ON FOSSIL OF PEKING MAN

"Hundreds of thousands of years ago" was the time of the first man according to Father Teilhard do Chardin, consulting Paleontologist to the Chinese Geological Survey, speaking yesterday in the Biological Lecture Room on "the Peking Man."

Declaring that this fossil discovery was the half-way point between man and his ape ancestors, de Chardin, a Catholic priest, feels that this "Peking Man" is definitely not an ape fossil but a man's. He went on to illustrate his belief by showing the tools found with the remains which point to an intelligence above any animals.

Father de Chardin came to this country to attend last week's International Symposium on Early Man, which was held in Philadelphia. With him he brought valuable material on the remains of what is known as the "sinanthropus pekinensis."