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as of a low type, must be classed with crania from the Illinois River 

 mounds, with which it has much in common. The differences are not 

 sufficient to indicate any distinct cranial variety, and the specimen 

 can not properly be regarded as evidence of a geologically early man 

 in North America. 



Measurements of the, Rock Bluff skull and of four masculine Indian crania, from mounds 



along the Illinois river. a 



Several of Schmidt s measurements of the Rock Bluff skull, particularly that of the breadth of the 

 specimen, are inaccurate, in all probability on account of a defective instrument. 

 b Damaged. 



XL THE MAN OF PENON 



The remains of the so-called man of Pefion consist of a portion of 

 the skull and of fragments of- other parts of a skeleton, embedded 

 in a variety of limestone, discovered accidentally in 1884 in the 

 Valley of Mexico. It was reported on in the following year by 

 Mariano Barcena, and in 1886 the find was described by Barcena 

 and Antonio del Castillo in La Naturaleza, in Mexico. The essential 



c Mariano Barcena, Notice of Some Human Remains Found near the City of Mexico, 

 The American Naturalist, xix, 739-744, August, 1885 ; also, by same author, The 

 Fossil Man of Tenon, Mexico, ibid., xx, 633-635, July, 1886 ; Noticia acerca del hallazgo 

 de^restos humanos prehistoricos en el Valle de Mexico, por Mariano Barcena y Antonio 

 del Castillo, La Xaturalesa, YII, 256-264, entrega 16, Mexico, 1866 ; Nuevos datos acerca 

 de la antiguedad del hombre, en el Valle de Mexico, por Mariano Barcena, ibid., 17, 

 265-270, Mexico, 1886 ; Discusiones acerca del hombre del Pefion : Carta del Prof. New- 

 berry al editor de La Tribuna, ibid., 18, 284-285, Mexico, 1886; Contestacion a las 

 observaciones de la carta anterior, por Mariano Barcena, ibid., 286-288. 



