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to the idea that this and other finds of human bones are bona tide relics 

 of Tertiary man. As long as this condition exists it is manifestly 

 miwise to attempt to pass over the evidence of the Calaveras skull, 

 as some are inclined to do, with the assertion that it is insufficient 

 and hence unworthy of consideration. 



In Plate XV, a, is given a view of the skull as it appeared when 

 first brought to the attention of Whitney in 1866, and in />, we see it 

 as it appeared after having been cleaned up by Dr. Wyman at Cam- 

 bridge.^ The former is from a photograph made by Alonzo Rhodes, 



Fig. 4.— Profile view of the c:alaveras Skull. From Plate L, Aurifcrou.s tiravels. 



at Murphys, Cal. Being faded, the j^liotograph had to be redrawn for 

 engraving, hence the cut has not the merits of a photograph directly 

 reproduced. The latter is copicnl from a lithographic plate ])iiblislied 

 by Whitney in his work on the Auriferous (travels and is manif(^stly 

 defective, quite a little of tlu^ character and natural ruggedness having 

 been lost ])y the draftsman. The profile view, from the same work, 

 is reproduced in fig. 4. The specimen is now prcsei'ved in the IVa- 

 body Museum at Cambridge, and comprises about three-fourth.>^ of 

 the skull. Enough remains, however, to e nable the craniologist to 



1 Auriferous gravels, PI. L. 



