KEPT IN VAULT
Scientist Asks That Remains Be Shown to Experts.
KNOWN AS THE JAVA APE-MAN
Five hundred thousand years after its existence, the fossil of a Java ape man, commonly called a "missing link," bridging the gap between ape and man, may soon be exhibited to the gaze of the world's scientists.
Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, is heading a movement to have Dr. Eugene Dubois, Dutch scientist, unlock his safe vaults containing the remains of the animal which at the end of the Pliocene era walked upright and had a brain similar to that of modern man.
For some reason, Doctor Dubois, the discoverer, has refused to exhibit the bones he found in 1893 near Trinil, in Java. A thighbone, the top of a skull, and two grinding teeth were all that 6,000 centuries had left of what Doctor Dubois described as the ape man.
Scientists Stirred.
Scientists of two continents were stirred when the fossils were shown by Doctor Dubois at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. But there was universal surprise when Doctor Dubois, after his lecture, wrapped up the bones of the creature that roamed the earth long before the first glaciers swept prehistoric Europe, and carried them off to his Haarlem safe.
Plaster casts of the skull top and teeth and photographs of the thigh bone were taken.
These were put at the disposal of scientists, and in New York Dr. J. H. McGregor of Columbia University, an expert.  Restorer of fossils, using the top of the skull as a base, reconstructed the skull and then built the head of the ape-man. 