CONTENTS 



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I. Introduction 9 



II. List of the skeletal remains 14 



III. The New Orleans skeleton 15 



IV. The Quebec skeleton 16 



V. The Natchez pelvic bone 16 



VI. The Lake Monroe ( Florida) bones 19 



VII. The Soda Creek skeleton 20 



VIII. The Charleston bones 20 



IX. The Calaveras skull 21 



History 21 



Physical characters. 22 



Comparisons 25 



The Rock Bluff cranium 28 



The Man of Pefiqn 32 



XII. The crania of Trenton 35 



The Burlington County skull - 36 



The Riverview Cemetery skull 36 



Racial affinities of the Burlington County and Riverview Ceme 

 tery skulls : 41 



XIII. The Trenton femur 46 



XIV. The Lansing skeleton 47 



Somatological characters 48 



Conclusion 52 



XV. The foHsil man of western Florida 1 53 



The Osprey skull 53 



The North Osprey bones 54 



The Hanson Landing remains . - 55 



The South Osprey remains 55 



Examination of the specimens 56 



Physical characters 57 



Resume - ... 60 



Report of Dr. T. Way land Vaughan 64 



XVI. Mound crania (Florida) 66 



XVII. The Nebraska loess man &quot; 66 



History of finds 67 



Description of the mound &quot;74 



Examination of the bones 76 



Discussion -*- - - 87 



XVIII. General conclusion 98 



XIX. Appendix: Recent Indian skulls of low type in the IT. S. National 



Museum 



Index J 109 



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