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stone layers and also between the heads of coral were filled with 
clay which contained many other examples of fossil life. 
Another coral reef in central Kentucky composed of a single 
species (Stromatocerium pustulosum Safford) was investigated and 
several massive and complete specimens excavated for exhibition. 
The smallest of these was several feet in diameter. As shown in the 
accompanying photograph (fig. 27) these conical coral masses (X) 
are restricted to a single layer of limestone, on which account they 
serve excellently in recognizing the bed from place to place. This 
coral reef occurs in the Trenton limestone and outcrops to advantage 
around Lexington, Kentucky, although it has been noted at many 
localities in central Kentucky and central Tennessee. 
No expeditions were in the field during the season from the section 
of vertebrate paleontology. Much valuable material was, however, 
collected and sent to the Museum by the field parties of the U. S. 
Geological Survey. 
EXAMINATION INTO: THE SUBJECT OF SUPPOSEDLY AN- 
CIENT HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 
On the invitation of Dr. E. H. Sellards, state geologist of Florida, 
and as his guest, Dr. Hrdliéka spent four days in the latter part of 
October, 1916, at Vero, Florida, where his time was devoted to the 
study of the site from which certain human bones described by Dr. 
Sellards were obtained, and to a preliminary examination of the 
bones themselves. 
Laborers were engaged and with their help there was made a 
clean exposure about 160 feet in length of the geological deposits 
in close proximity to the localities where the human bones had been 
discovered. This afforded a comprehensive and enlightening view 
of the formations involved. 
The two human skeletons had been found in the south bank of a 
recently excavated drainage canal. They occurred, one in fairly 
close proximity to, and the other within the broad shallow bed of, 
a small fresh-water stream, now drained by a lateral cut from the 
canal. The former lay in dark and somewhat indurated sands, the 
latter for the most part at the base of the muck deposit of the 
stream bed, and between this and the next older stratum. A few 
smaller bones which probably belonged to the second skeleton were 
found at about the same level a short distance from the rest of the 
remains in an elevation of the lower sandy layer. 
The first skeleton lay at a depth of two and a half feet, the 
second at a depth of two to three and a half feet from the sur- 
