IIO FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
In this paper Dr. Leidy reports briefly upon a collection of vertebrate fossils 
received for examination from the Smithsonian Institution. The collection was 
made by Dr. J. C. Neal of Archer, Florida, the material having been obtained 
from a bed of clay occupying a ridge in the pine forest. The bones were found 
over an irregular area about xoo feet long by 30 feet wide, and to a depth of 
seven feet. The collection included (1) a young mastodon; (2) a rhinoceros; 
(3) a tapir; (4) a llama as large as a camel; (5) a calcaneum much like that 
of Cervus americanus ; (6) remains of a crocodile, vertebra of a teleost fish, 
and several other undetermined bone fragments. 
1885. Leidy, Joseph: 
Rhinoceros and Hippotherium front Florida. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila. Proc., pp. 32-33, 1885. 
This paper contains a brief account of additional fossils received from 
Dr. Neal from the same locality as that referred to in the preceding paper. 
Dr. Neal reports that he had revisited the locality in company with Professor 
L. C. Johnson. It was in this letter that Dr. Neal suggested that the deposits 
holding the fossils formed originally the border of a lake or lagoon. Rhino¬ 
ceros proterus is mentioned as a new species, and is based on a tooth contained 
in this lot of material. The species Hippotherium ingenuum is proposed, based 
upon an upper molar, “perhaps the fourth large one of the series.” A figure 
and measurements of the tooth are given. The other forms mentioned as rep¬ 
resented in this collection are a crocodile, a carnivorous animal about the size of 
a fox, and a llama. 
1885. Neal, J. C.: 
(Discovery of another bed of fossil bones in the Alachua 
Clays). Communicated to Joseph Leidy. Proceedings of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science, March 24, 1885. Re¬ 
ported in Am. Nat. Vol. 19, p. 834, (1-8 p.) 1885. 
The new locality referred to in this paper, said to be twenty miles from 
the locality previously reported, is evidently that on Hallowell’s plantation, north¬ 
west of Archer, and hence approximately twenty miles north of the locality on 
Mixon’s plantation. A bed of cinders and charred bones was reported two or 
three feet below the surface. 
1886. Leidy, Joseph: 
Mastodon and Llama from Florida. Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc., pp. 
11-12, 1886. 
This paper contains notice of receipt of additional vertebrate fossils from 
Florida. This lot of material was collected by Dr. W. H. Dali from near 
Archer and was submitted for identification by the United States Geological 
