THE FOSSIL MAN OF LANSING, KANSAS. 



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berlin, with the assent of Professors Salisbury and Calvin. To give all 

 the reasons upon which these views are based is to repeat the already 

 voluminous discussion, and we must content ourselves with the con- 

 clusions only. 



According to Professors Winchell and Upham, the material cover- 

 ing the skeletons was deposited during the time of the fourth recru- 

 descence or southward extension of the glaciers in the United States, 

 in that stage known as the Iowan, that is, during the next to the last 

 glacial extension which reached as far south as central Iowa. Under 



View from the West showing Intersecting Trench dug to join the Original 

 Tunnel, with the Concannon residence in background. The skeleton was found nearly below 

 the place indicated by the larger light spot at the right of the trees. From a phoiograph by 

 Professor Chain berlin. 



this view, the valley of the Missouri River was at this time filled to 

 a depth of a hundred feet or more, but has since been excavated to its 

 present level, and the material covering the Lansing skeleton is a part 

 which has not since been carried away. In support of this view, it is 

 claimed that the material covering the skeleton is of the character of 

 glacial loess; that it shows evidence of water stratification; and that 

 there is no evidence to prove that there has been any subsidence of the 

 valley subsequent to glacial time. 



