HUMAN REMAINS AND ASSOCIATED FOSSILS. 131 
how fruitful of results, following this chance suggestion, have been 
the efforts of those who were collecting there. 
FIRST DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS IN THE OLDER STREAM 
DEPOSIT, STRATUM NO. 2 OF THE SECTION. 
Text-figure 3; pi. 18, fig. 1; pi. 19, fig. 4; pi. 20, fig. 1; pi. 21, fig. 6. 
In October, 1915, Mr. Ayers, while examining the stratum 
which contains the vertebrate fossils, found some bones in place 
which seemed probably to belong to a human skeleton. In order to 
verify the place of the bones in the section he then called Mr. Weills, 
and together they removed the bones. The parts of the skeleton 
obtained include the right and left femur, lacking the extremities; 
right patella; left tibia and fragments of the right; right fibula; 
right calcaneum; right and left astragalus; left navicular; external 
cuneiform of the right foot; right metatarsals one to four; left 
metatarsals three to five; a part of the shaft of the left humerus; 
right os magnum ; three, metacarpals; and three phalanges. All of 
these bones pertain apparently to the same specimen, representing 
a small individual. From the lower margin of the lesser tuberosity 
to the upper margin of the inner condylar notch, the femur measures 
29 cm., the corresponding measurement on the femur of a large 
modern adult being as much as 32 cm. The extremities of the 
larger limb bones of this skeleton are but poorly preserved, a con¬ 
dition common to many of the bones in this sand, although the 
bones found in muck in this bed are as a rule more nearly complete. 
The section of the bank at the place where these human bones 
were found is as follows: 
Feet. Inches. 
Sandy hard marl rock _ 1 3 
Sand stained brown by organic matter _ 3 9 
Marine shell marl to water level in the canal___ 5 9 
The marl rock and the brown sand beneath represent stratum 
No. 2 of the general section (text-figure 2), the alluvial bed, No. 3 
of the section, being absent at this place. The human remains 
were imbedded in the brown sand about three feet from the base or 
two feet from the ground surface as it existed previous to the con¬ 
struction of the canal. 
That the sands in which the human remains are found represent 
a continuation of the stratum holding the other vertebrate fossils 
