Between the years 1899 and 1907 the writer carried out a 

 series of inquiries on the various skeletal remains which suggested 

 or were attributed to ancient man in North America. The studies 

 resulted in a number of publications, i) culminating in a memoir on 

 the whole subject, which appeared as Bulletin 33 of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. The results of the investigations seemed at 

 first to lend support to the theory of considerable antiquity for some 

 of the remains presented as evidence, as, for example, the two low 

 skulls discovered at Trenton, New Jersey. Subsequent researches 

 however, cleared up most of the uncertain points, and the entire 

 inquiry seemed to establish the fact that thus far no human bones 

 have come to light in North America representing other than the 

 Indian type of man, which we have many weighty reasons to regard 

 as relatively modem in this part of the world. 



More interesting and much more complex conditions than those 

 in regard to early man in North America have arisen in South 

 America. There skeletal remains of man which came to be regarded 

 as of geological antiquity began to accumulate since Lund's exploration 

 of the Brazilian caves in the forties of the past century, and by the 

 end of the last decade have reached such a number as well as 

 importance, that they called for the closest attention on the part of 

 the anthropologist. The scientific world was informed about the 

 discoveries of the remains of not merely a number of distinct ancient 

 extinct species of man, but even of those of several human precursors, 

 which should have connected, somewhere in the Eocene, with the 

 little South American primates of that period. Moreover, there also 



Clarence I^. Fenneb. Bull. 52. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D. C, 1912, 8 vo., pp. I— XV, & 1—405, with 

 68 plates and 51 figures. 



1) The Crania of Trenton, N. J., and their Bearing upon the Antiquity 

 of Man in that Region. In Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, XVI, Art. 3, 2?^— 62, 3 charts fig. 1-4, pi. I— XXII. :New York, 

 Feb. 6, 1912. 



The Lansing Skeleton, in The Amercian Anthropologist, N. S., V, 323—330,^ 

 1 Fig.. Lancaster, Pa., June 1903. 



A report on the Trenton Femur (written in 1902), published with 

 E. Volk's The Archeology of the Delaware Valley, Memoirs of the Peabody 

 Museum, v, Cambridge, Mass., 1911, pp. 242—247. 



Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North 

 America. Bulletin 33 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 1—113, 

 pi. I-XXI, fig. 1-16, Washington, 1907. 



