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  ANNUAL 
  REPOKT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  story 
  of 
  the 
  migrations 
  of 
  human 
  races. 
  Indeed, 
  the 
  analogies 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  the 
  hmnan 
  record 
  and 
  the 
  paleontological 
  record 
  are 
  really 
  

   amazing. 
  

  

  The 
  Cuboides 
  fauna 
  of 
  late 
  Devonian 
  time 
  appeared 
  suddenly 
  in 
  the 
  

   paleontological 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  interior 
  region 
  of 
  North 
  

   America. 
  No 
  occurrence 
  of 
  any 
  possible 
  ancestral 
  forebears 
  of 
  much 
  

   of 
  this 
  fauna 
  is 
  known 
  in 
  the 
  sediments 
  immediately 
  preceding 
  the 
  

   I'ully 
  limestone 
  in 
  New 
  York, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  Cuboides 
  fauna 
  is 
  typically 
  

   represented. 
  These 
  strange, 
  new 
  forms 
  could 
  only 
  have 
  originated 
  

   in 
  some 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distant 
  province 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  long 
  separated 
  

   from 
  this 
  -eastern 
  American 
  basin, 
  the 
  isolation 
  associated 
  with 
  dif- 
  

   ferent 
  environmental 
  surroundings 
  being 
  responsible 
  for 
  the 
  differ- 
  

   ences 
  in 
  contemporaneous 
  provincial 
  faunas. 
  Finally, 
  on 
  the 
  cul- 
  

   mination 
  of 
  slow 
  and 
  gradual 
  changes 
  in 
  the 
  strandlines, 
  and 
  per- 
  

   haps 
  in 
  other 
  changes, 
  a 
  shallow-water 
  pathway 
  of 
  communication 
  

   was 
  established 
  between 
  the 
  home 
  province 
  of 
  the 
  Cuboides 
  fauna 
  

   and 
  eastern 
  North 
  America, 
  and 
  the 
  migration 
  was 
  permitted 
  which 
  

   gave 
  rise 
  to 
  the 
  sudden 
  appearance 
  of 
  the 
  fauna 
  where 
  we 
  now 
  find 
  

   its 
  paleontological 
  record. 
  

  

  How 
  similar 
  is 
  this 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  province 
  and 
  a 
  new 
  outlet 
  

   for 
  the 
  expansion 
  of 
  the 
  Cuboides 
  fauna 
  to 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  the 
  

   American 
  continents 
  by 
  the 
  European 
  white 
  races 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  400 
  

   years 
  ago. 
  Men 
  had 
  long 
  sailed 
  ships 
  on 
  the 
  sea 
  and 
  had 
  traveled 
  

   from 
  place 
  to 
  place 
  along 
  the 
  Mediterranean 
  and 
  European 
  shores. 
  

   The 
  first 
  crude 
  boats 
  were 
  propelled 
  with 
  oars; 
  later, 
  sailing 
  vessels 
  

   were 
  invented 
  and 
  use 
  was 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  driving 
  force 
  of 
  the 
  wind. 
  

   Early 
  sailors 
  could 
  not 
  venture 
  out 
  of 
  sight 
  of 
  land 
  without 
  danger 
  

   of 
  becoming 
  lost. 
  Then 
  they 
  held 
  their 
  courses, 
  directed 
  by 
  the 
  

   heavenly 
  bodies, 
  and 
  finally 
  the 
  magnetic 
  compass 
  was 
  discovered. 
  

   This 
  was 
  a 
  long, 
  slow 
  process, 
  comparable 
  to 
  the 
  slowly 
  changing 
  

   strandlines 
  of 
  the 
  geologic 
  past. 
  Finally 
  one 
  man, 
  more 
  venturesome 
  

   than 
  the 
  others, 
  sailed 
  away 
  from 
  the 
  European 
  shores 
  into 
  the 
  

   unknown 
  ocean 
  to 
  the 
  west. 
  He 
  discovered 
  a 
  new 
  continent, 
  just 
  as 
  

   the 
  Cuboides 
  fauna 
  discovered 
  a 
  new 
  province 
  in 
  America. 
  When 
  

   once 
  the 
  way 
  was 
  pointed 
  out, 
  other 
  adventurers 
  followed, 
  and 
  ere 
  

   long 
  a 
  continuous 
  stream 
  of 
  white 
  Europeans 
  was 
  flowing 
  across 
  the 
  

   A.tlajitic. 
  

  

  The 
  aboriginal 
  peoples 
  of 
  our 
  continent 
  are 
  comparable 
  with 
  the 
  

   faunal 
  predecessors 
  in 
  eastern 
  North 
  America 
  of 
  the 
  Cuboides 
  fauna. 
  

   The 
  differences 
  between 
  the 
  European 
  white 
  races 
  and 
  the 
  original 
  

   Americans 
  were 
  as 
  great, 
  humanly 
  speaking, 
  as 
  were 
  the 
  faunal 
  

   differences 
  between 
  late 
  Middle 
  Devonian 
  life 
  and 
  the 
  Cuboides 
  fauna. 
  

   In 
  each 
  of 
  these 
  migrations 
  the 
  newcomers 
  overran 
  the 
  new 
  fields 
  

   into 
  which 
  they 
  entered, 
  driving 
  the 
  older 
  occupants 
  into 
  extinction 
  

  

  