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the mum? shape as the incisors. . . . The size and shape of the bones of the 

 limbs corresixmd to those of a man of ordinary stature, and from the appear- 

 ance of the teeth the man must have lx>en about 40 years old. 



The writer saw the specimens in 1902. The illustrations in La 

 Nattiraleza (vn, no. 10) and in The American Naturalist (xix, no. 8, 



FIG. 4. Remnant of the skull of the " Hombre del Penon." (After Barcena, 

 in La Xaturalesa, vn. no. 16.) 



1885), particularly the former, give a fair view of the mass containing 

 the skull (figure 4). Altogether, there is not enough of the material 

 to warrant any conclusion as to the race of the individual; what 

 there is suggests the Indian. There is no excessive prognathisin or 



