Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — Who in America Has Found Lost Jawbone? [ARTICLE]

Who in America Has Found Lost Jawbone?

/ I ■ London. —Who has this jawbone? And whoever has it, what Is he. doing with it? , “JAWBONE INFORMATION wanted regarding whereabouts of human jawbone found in 1855 in coprolite pit at Foxhall, near Ipswich, Suffolk, and described by R. H. Collyer, M. D„ in Anthropological Review. 1867. Supposed to have been taken to America. —Reid Moir, Ipswich.” This advertisement is from the London Times. Manifestly the jawbone in question is that of a cave dweller or other primitive inhabitant of Britain, and therefore one of our ancestors. But who outside of a museum wants to collect his ancestors’ jawbones.