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found, but if Man were living at this time they might suppose that 

 the waters which gathered together and poured into this tomb so 

 many living creatures seized him also, and that at some unexpected 

 moment, they should find a piece of his skeleton, or a fragment of 

 his handiwork to prove it. Fort Kennedy represented the meeting 

 ground between anthropology and paleontology, where perhaps from 

 the point of view of the latter larger science, it was sufficient to 

 gather the bones, and identify the species, but anthropology asked 

 for more. It must have everything measured and in place. On the 

 alert for the sudden apparition of Man, it must know how, when, 

 why, by whom, and under what circumstances all these objects were 

 found. No more of the doubt that beclouded the classic deposits at 

 Natchez, Miss. , or Trenton, N. J. , that perplexed the student who went 

 to Stockholm and tried to get at the real meaning of the bones that 

 Lund supposed he found associated with pleistocene fossils in the Minas- 

 Geraes Caverns in Brazil. No more of the uncertainty that ob- 

 scured at first the investigations at Gailenreuth, where pottery and 

 charcoal seemed to be mixed with the bones of the Cave Bear, 

 or at other caverns in Belgium, England and France, where for a 

 long time science concerned itself with the species of animals found, 

 and not with the human remains associated with them. If Homo 

 sapiens were found at Port Kennedy the fact and its significance 

 could well be established beyond all controversy, but since Dr. Dixon 

 and the speaker had begun excavation there a year ago, and after 

 working at the spot for more than a month last autumn, and during 

 several recent weeks, the latter felt that it would be safe to say that 

 not one- third of the deposit had been removed, though he himself had 

 dug out about 300 cubic yards, and Mr. Rhoads had removed as 

 much previously. 



Thanks were due to Mr. Archibald Irwin, the owner of the 

 quarry, for the privilege accorded by him of exploring the deposit. 

 With his co-operation the work advanced. Meanwhile it was 

 eminently desirable that means should be furnished for the farther 

 exploration of this most important pleistocene record. 



The Fossil Vertebrata from the fissure at Port Kennedy, Pa. Prof. 

 Edw. D. Cope made the following remarks on the contents of the 

 cave at Port Kennedy, and especially on the fossil remains of verte- 

 brata presented to the Academy by Dr. S. G. Dixon and Mr. H. 

 C. Mercer. The fissure was exposed in 1870 by the workmen 

 engaged in quarrying the Cambrian limestone (Calciferous epoch), 

 and Mr. C. M. Wheatley had published an account of it in the 

 American Journal of Science and Arts. He collected numerous 

 fossils, which were the subject of a paper by the speaker, which was 

 published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 



