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The specimen was sent by Mr. \\ Vt>l> as a gift to the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and what remains of it is now in the collections of the 

 division of physical anthropology of the National Museum. A .short 

 account of it was published in 188i) by Prof. Joseph Leidy." On 



continuing the excavation 

 in the same place some ad- 

 ditional pieces of human 

 I tones were found, but Mr. 

 Webb does not now know 

 in what condition they were 

 or what became of them. 



THE NORTH OSPREY BONES 



About 1872, in digging 

 another ditch in a shallow 

 dry pond bed on the north- 

 ern part of his property, 

 about ten minutes' walk 

 from the location of the 

 above-mentioned skull, Mr. 

 Webb and his son, J. W. 

 Webb, discovered, " less 

 than 3 feet deep," another 

 lot of fossilized human 

 bones, and these also were 

 sent to the Smithsonian 

 Institution. b There was no ferruginous or other rock in the neigh- 

 borhood of these bones, and their fossilization is of a different nature 

 from that of the Osprey skull. Most of these specimens, which are 

 in very good condition for study, are preserved in the National 

 Museum, a few pieces are in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge (men- 

 tioned in the Seventh Annual Report of that institution, 1874, 

 page 26), and a few other portions are in the Army Medical Museum. 



"Notice of Some Fossil Human Bones, Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of 

 Science, n, 9-12, Philadelphia, 1889. 



" The exact location is described by J. W. Webb, in a recent letter, as follows : " North 

 of the old sugar mill, on the road to Ouptrel, is a ditch running east and west, which 

 drains the ' Banana ' pond ; the ditch which now runs on line between the lowland on 

 the south and the sandy land on the north used to run through the lowland. If a 

 point Is takeu In a line of the second row of orange trees east of the road a little more 

 than halfway from the northernmost tree to the ditch, It will about correspond to the site 

 of the old ditch where the bones were taken out. In this lot there were arm and leg 

 bones and parts of skull and part of a jaw. They were less than 3 feet deep.' 



FIG. 8. Sketch map of Osprey and vicinity. 



