hrdliOka] skeletal REMAINS OF EAELY MAN 167 



"7. Broken glabella and fragments of nasals, as well as a piece of 

 the supraciliary arch of a young individual; frontal sinuses small. 



"8. Distal portion and shaft of humerus, gnawn by mice and by 

 some larger rodent; thickly permeated by limonite. 



''9. Distal portion and shaft of humerus; young or small individ- 

 ual; no marks of teeth. 



"10. Proximal end of tibia, very young individual, wanting 

 epiphyses; slightly gnawn by rodents. 



"11. Shaft of femur; much gnawn by rodents. 



"12. Proximal end of femur, including head and neck, and part 

 of shaft, of young individual; gna^vn by mice (Hesperomys). 



"13. Distal end of femur, exhibiting frequent marks of the teeth 

 of some rodent, probably one of the small mice {Hesferomys) of the 

 caves, slightly infiltrated with ocherous mud, and with much of the 

 animal matter absent. 



"14. Tibia, long fragment of shaft; few traces of rodent action. 



"The following three specimens are in the same condition as the 

 fragments of the lower jaw. No. 3, above alluded to. 



"15. Long bone (small humerus?) imbedded in limonite, which 

 contains many fragments of fossil shells, exceedingly difFicult of iden- 

 tification. A specimen of Planorhis (of which fresh-water type four 

 existing species in Brazil are recorded by Mr. S. P. Woodward in 

 bis Manual of Mollusca) is recognisable, as well as the broken frag- 

 ments of an elongated land-snail, probably Buliinus. 



"16. Sections of three long bones, covered with sandy deposit 

 containing large quantities of oxide of iron (limonite); the medul- 

 lary cavity of the bones being filled with crystals of carbonate of 

 lime. 



"17. Distal end of femur, thickly incrusted with limonite, the 

 animal matter being absent. 



"18. Head of humerus, covered with limonite." 



The next mention of the Lund specimens, referring to the main 

 part of the collection at Copenhagen, occurs in the memoir of Rein- 

 hardt,^ who occupied himself for years with the study of the animal 

 bones collected by Lund in the Brazilian caves. In this memoir are 

 mentioned also the human remains from the cave of Sumidouro. 

 Reinhardt recognized that the disturbance of the primitive deposits 

 in the cave necessitated great care in the drawing of conclusions from 

 the find, nevertheless he says that the human bones resembled so 

 exactly in their state of preservation those of extinct animals, that 

 one can not doubt that they were introduced into the cave at about 

 the same epoch as the latter. Reinhardt believed also that he could 

 characterize the tribe from which the human remains proceeded as 

 one of "quite tall stature, but somewhat delicate, dolichocephalic, 



I Reinhardt, J., De brasilianske Klnoglehuler og de i dem forekommende Dyrelevninger. En Samling 

 0/ A/handlinger e Museo Lundii, i, KjiJbenhavn, 1888, pp. 1-5G. [Memoir read in 186G.] 



