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eiilly (luit of a male (a- an* in all probability all the other .skull 

 fragment-): it -how> a fairly \\ell developed chin ami alveolar pro- 

 tru-Moii in a moderate degree. Hori/ontal length of tin- lower ramu* 

 I|M>II( **.* cm.: height at xymphisis i* :\.:> cm. Tin-re \\.-re 16 

 lo\ver ^-eond dentition teeth; the molars of moderate -i/.e, the others 

 rather >iihmcdium ; the remaining teeth arc iiormul in form, but are 

 somewhat worn down. The up|>er and lower jaws fit well together 

 and undoubtedly In-long to the same cranium. 



The t\\<> o>v ;l innominata indicate medium masculine size and 

 ma i \riic~- and are in no way peculiar in form. One measured 

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

 <l N-t ween the interior-superior and the |x)sterior-siiperior 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 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 

 "I <-m. long and moderately platyeiwmic (index at middle 04.9, at 

 nutritive foramen G3.8). The inclination of the head is such as 

 would l>e considered alxwt medium in an Indian; traces of some 

 slight superficial inflammatory process are apparent on the lower 

 third of the l>one. The remaining Ixmes 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 lx>nes exhibits any charac- 

 teristic that is beyond the range of normal variation of modern 



>| imens. As with the Osprey skull, there is again possible only 



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

 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, Ix'forc its consolidation t<x>k place. 

 Alnuit all that can be said of the lx>nes from the somatological stand- 

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

 special reference to the better-preserved sjH'cimena of Mr. Wilcox, 

 " They do not differ in any respect from corresponding recent human 

 honest" 



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

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

 can lx said regarding them anatomically. There are visible parts 



8e Typical Forms of Shaft of Long Bonm. l'roc diny* of the Attortatlo* of Ameri- 

 can .\nnti, mi*t*. 14th s.-ssi..ii. :,:, ,-t x.i| . I'.NMI. 



ZYanGcMon of the Wauntr Free Jnttitute of Science, n, 10, Philadelphia, 1S88. 



