462 FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS FOUND NEAR LANSING, KANSAS. 



well preserved and fresh looking, and is nearl}^ identical with crania 

 of our historic tribes. Now when, as in the present case, two some- 

 what equall}" supported interpretations of the geological phenomena 

 are possible — the one making it appear that remains of men occur in 

 formations where they could reasonably be expected, and the other 

 carrying human occupancy back ten thousand or twenty thousand 

 years — the anthropologist may consistently accept, tentatively at least, 

 the first of these interpretations, and the non-professional student of 

 the subject may find it wise to at least withhold his full acceptance of 

 either view until those geologists best qualitied to discuss the special 

 problems involved shall have reached practical unanimity. 



As a result of my own observations at Lansing, and considering also 

 the conclusions reached by Professor Chamberlin and his associates, I 

 find it ditficult to come to any other conclusion than that the human 

 remains under consideration are properly classed as of Post-Glacial age, 

 interpreting that term to cover all time subsequent to the final retreat 

 of the ice from the region south of the Great Lakes. 



The Lansing skull, illustrated in Plates I-II, belongs to Mr. M. C. 

 Long, curator of the Kansas City Museum. It has been carefully 

 repaired under the direction of Dr. George A. Dorse}^, and is now 

 deposited in the United States National Museum. 



