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fossils with which it was found associated. 



been made, it seems that his opinion should carry moiv weight than 

 that of Doctor Dickeson. 



Examination and measurements of the -pecimen gave Schmidt 

 nothing extraordinary, and racial identification of the bone wa> 

 justly declared by him to be wholly impossible. 



The-Xatche/ pelvic bone came eventually to the attention of Prof. 

 Joseph Leidy, and he reported on it in the Transaction* of the Wayner 

 Free Institute of Science, 1889 (n, 9-10). According to this 

 authority 



the collection of fossils, yet contained in the museum of the academy, are 

 well preserved, firm in texture, and stained chocolate brown from ferruginous 

 infiltration. The fossils consist of a nearly entire skull and other bones of 

 Mr(ialnij.r Jcffcrsoiri, teeth of Mcyalonyf <lixnimilin and Ercptodon prim-as. 

 bones of Myhtdon Hurlani, bones and teeth of Manttitlon atncricanus, and teeth 

 of Ktiuus major and of Rimm laiifrunx. The human iimominatum. somewhat 

 mutilated, presents the same condition of preservation and color as the other 



It differs in no respect 

 from an ordinary aver- 

 age siiecimen of the cor- 

 responding recent lx>ne 

 of man. 



Sir Charles Lyell, 

 in an interview with 

 Professor Leidy 

 expressed the opinion 

 that, although the hu- 

 man bone may have 

 been contemporaneous 

 with those of the ex- 

 tinct animals with 

 which it had l>een 

 found, he thought it 

 more probable it had 

 fallen from one of the 

 Indian graves and had 

 become mingled with 

 the older fossils which 

 were dislodged from the 

 deei>er part of the cliff. 

 ... At the time of 

 making his communica- 

 tion Doctor Dickeson 

 intimated that the hu- 

 man hone was found at 



a lower level, beneath Ixnies of the Megalonyx, etc., but this would not prove its 

 age to be greater than or contemporaneous with the latter. In the wear of the 

 cliff the upper i>ortion, with the Indian graves a.nd human lones. would he 

 likely to fall first and the deeper portion with the older fossils subsequently on 

 the latter. 



Fio. 2. The Natchez pelvic hone. (After Leidy.) 



