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gia he has historic ma Europe. It has to build up from a skeleton animal from a fragment of Rutot has gone much further and haustive study this scientist has been a to build up the principal types of the different races of men which succeeded one another in the prehistoric darkness. In order to reach the highest point of probability M. Rutot and his sculptor, Louis Mascre, who executed the busts, began by restoring the debris of skulls universally recognized as having belonged to the prehistoric races. Then they reconstructed the muscles of the face, the arms and the upper body after the established laws of anatomy. It remained only to cover the body and face with flesh and hair such as established knowledge of these races would warrant. The result is really startling. M. Rutot has added the expressions of the face which he thinks portray the characteristics of these prehistoric men and he also has put in their hands instruments like those which have been found, intruments with which they killed their prey or defended themselves against their enemies, for enemies they must have had. Illustration, the Paris weekly, prints photographs of the busts which M. Rutot has made and it is to this paper that THE SUN correspondent is indebted for the above pictures as well as the descriptions of them. Man of 1,000,000 Years Ago. Bust No. 1 is labelled the Tertiary Precursor. M. Rutot has taken as his model the skull of the pithecanthropus drawn in profile by Dr. Manouvrier for the Anthropological Society of Paris. The skull, combined with a fossil of the same period, served to give the aspect of the man who [[image fragment]] No. 1--P years old), w elusively a tr lived on the This man, if ceased to be e his predecesso tarian. He lived in half man, hal a superiority around him, telligence to rounding creat by heredity, h he was a bipe