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ently that of a male (as are in all probability all the other skull 

 fragments) ; it shows a fairly well-developed chin and alveolar pro 

 trusion in a moderate degree. Horizontal length of the lower ramus 

 is about 9.8 cm.; height at symphisis is 3.5 cm. There were 16 

 lower second dentition teeth ; the molars of moderate size, the others 

 rather submedium ; the remaining teeth are normal in form, but are 

 somewhat worn down. The upper and lower jaws fit well together 

 and undoubtedly belong to the same cranium. 



The two ossa innominata indicate medium masculine size and 

 massiveness and are in no way peculiar in form. One measured 

 about 19.5 cm. in greatest height and 14.2 cm. in greatest breadth 

 (between the anterior-superior and the posterior-superior spines). 

 The femur (plate vn) measures 40.5 cm. in the bicondylar and 40.7 

 cm. in maximum length ; the neck shows an angle of 130 ; the shaft 

 approaches type 1, or the prismatic, in form a and is of moderate 

 strength; the index of the subtrochanteric flattening is 75. 8; and 

 there is present a quite pronounced third trochanter. The tibia 

 (plate vn), measured without the spine but with the malleolus, is 

 34 cm. long and moderately platycmemic (index at middle 64.9, at 

 nutritive foramen 63.8). The inclination of the head is such as 

 w r ould be considered about medium in an Indian; traces of some 

 slight superficial inflammatory process are apparent on the lower 

 third of the bone. The remaining bones and fragments are all char 

 acterized by moderate dimensions, and none show any disease or 

 abnormality. 



When compared with ordinary recent Indian skeletons, it is found 

 that not a single piece of the North Osprey bones exhibits any charac 

 teristic that is beyond the range of normal variation of modern 

 specimens. As with the Osprey skull, there is again possible only 

 one conclusion, namely, that there is absolutely nothing in these bones 

 which would suggest great or even considerable antiquity, geologic 

 ally speaking. 



As to the Hanson Landing finds, all seem to have belonged to one 

 skeleton, buried in the ground, before its consolidation took place. 

 About all that can be said of the bones from the somatological stand 

 point is contained in the report of Professor Leidy, 6 who states, with 

 special reference to the better-preserved specimens of Mr. Wilcox, 

 &quot; They do not differ in any respect from corresponding recent human 

 bones.&quot; 



The South Osprey fossils (plate vm, a, b) in the hands of the 

 writer, are so defective and so embedded in the rock that but little 

 can be said regarding them anatomically. There are visible parts 



See Typical Forms of Shaft of Long Bones, Proceedings of the Association of Ameri 

 can Anatomists, 14th session, 55 et seq., 1900. 



b Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, n, 10, Philadelphia, 1889. 



