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puncture correspond quite closely to those of the pointed end of the 

 stone axes, specimens of whicli are so often found in the excavations 

 of antiquities, a fact which leads to the belief that they were produced 

 by such an instrument. . . . 



"If we consider these remains of man from the standpoint of the 

 ethnographic traits wliich they present, we shall see that all the skulls 

 bear the distinctive features of the American race. . . . 



''The examination to which I have submitted the contents of the 

 cave lias thus led me to the following conclusions: 



''1. The occupation of South America by man extends not only 

 beyond tlic epoch of the discovery of tliis part of tlie world, but far 

 back into historic times [i. e. historic time in generall, and probably 

 even beyond these into geologic times. A number of species of 

 animals seem to have disappeared from the ranks of the ci-eation 

 since the appearance of man in this hemisphere. 



"2. The race which occupied this part of the world in remote 

 antiquity was in its general type the same as that which inhabited 

 the country at the time of the discovery by tlie Europeans." 



The above completes the original data concerning the Lagoa 

 Santa cave discoveries. 



Reports on Lund's- Collections 



Most of Lund's collections passed to the Zoological Museum of the 

 University of Copenhagen; one of the Sumidouro cave skulls, how- 

 ever, was donated by him to the Historical and Geograpliical Institute 

 of Brazil, in whose possession it remains to this day;^ and a series of 

 specimens, including tlie number of more or less mineralized human 

 bones, was acquired by the British Museum. 



The last-named collection was briefly reported on in 1S64 as follows 

 by Blake :^ 



"In the British Museum there exist some human remains pur- 

 chased with the Claussen collection, and forming part of the series of 

 specimens which were discovered by Lund and Claussen in their 

 investigations in Eastern Brazil. 



"Mr. W. Davies having kindly drawn my attention to them, I will 

 give a short list of the specimens, without wishing to draw any further 

 conclusions than that they probably belong to a period of great his- 

 torical antiquity, although probably not coeval with the fossil fauna 

 which Lund has described in the Transactions of various northern 

 academies. 



"L Skull of young child. This skull is brachycephalic and asym- 

 metrical, the right side being shorter than the left. There are evi- 



1 It was seen by the writer; it could be examined, however, only through the glass doors of a closet, the 

 key of which had been lost. 



2 Blake, C. C, On Human Remains from a Bone Cave in Brazil; in Jour. Anthr. Soc. London, n, 1864, 



pp. CCLXV-CCLXVn. 



