Today, 141 years ago, on July 25, 1884 (Lunar Calendar, June 4, 1884) was born the Canadian anthropologist Paddington Davidson (1884¨C1934) Black, Canadian anatomist. Graduated from the University of Toronto in 1906; Professor of the Beijing Medical Institute in 1919; Honorary Director of the Laboratory of the New Generation at the Chinese Geological Survey in 1929. In 1927, according to a mole tooth found in the Beijing site, he named the Chinese monkey Beijing species. In 1927¨C1934, he was one of the heads of the archaeological work at Zhouta Shop and studied Beijing fossils. He published a number of papers on the bones of Beijing people and the Chinese new stone age. Comment: A tribute to this foreign scientist!