hrdliCka] skeletal REMAINS OF EARLY MAN 243 



will publish in a short time, the result of his studies in these Anales. 

 Meanwhile, however, having observed that the femur of the larger 

 race preserves certain very notable primitive features, I have per- 

 mitted myself to utilize it for certain comparative observations, 

 which will not be without importance in the interpretation of the 

 various morphologic peculiarities of the femur of the Tetraprothomo." 



The femur in question is then repeatedly mentioned by Ameghino 

 in comparison (pp. 118, 139, 141, 150-1, 153-4, 156-9, 167, 169-71; 

 illustrations: 172-3, 238). In general. Professor Ameghino notes 

 many and important similarities between the femur under considera- 

 tion and that of the Tetraprothomo, besides other primitive forms, 

 while other features of the bone are stated to be more like those 

 of present man. 



On page 238 of the memoir there is another reference to a ''pigmy" 

 race of Ovejero, which reads as follows: 



"The man of the Pampean formation was really of a low stature, 

 about 1.50 m., although superior in this respect to the races named 

 above [Homo pampseus, etc.]. But there have been races, now 

 extinct, of a considerably smaller size. In spealdng of the fossil 

 man of Ovejero, I said that he was accompanied by the remains of a 

 dwarf race. I give here illustrations in natural size of the distal 

 extremity of the humerus of a very old individual from the dwarf 

 fossil race of Ovejero . . . and beside it the corresponding part of 

 the humerus of a natural mian of medium stature ... in order 

 that the great difference in size between the two may be appre- 

 ciated; the stature of the dwarf races of Ovejero could not have 

 been more than 1.30."^ 



The Ovejero remains are mentioned again by Ameghino in 1910, 

 in his "Geologia, Paleogeografia," etc. On page 24 of that work 

 the author says: 



"In the Quaternary of Santiago del Estero appear remains of a 

 race (the race of Ovejero) which perhaps became isolated at an earher 

 epoch, for it is of very small stature, only 1.30 m., possesses a 

 mandible with a strong chin, and has a skull that is short, broad, 

 and smooth, presenting a distant hkeness to the negrito type of 

 Asia and Africa." 



Still another notice concerning these finds, also by Ameghino, 

 soon follows : ^ 



"In Santiago del Estero (Rio Hondo) p] were discovered fossil 

 skulls and bones of two very distinct races of man; one strong and of 



1 "There exists an incomplete skull of the same individual of a size also very small, but I abstain from 

 enterm.g into the details in respect to this statement for the reason which I have expressed in the footnote 

 on page 115." — Ameghino. 



2 Ameghino, F., Dcscubrimiento de un esqueleto humano f6sil en el pampeano superior del Arroyo 

 Siasgo; Congrcso Cientifico Internacional Americano; separate publication, Buenos Aires, 1910, pp. 1-6, 



' See Ovejero specimens.— A. H. 



