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over the spot. They were first seen by the gardener, Parodi, who 

 lives in the neighborhood, but were not taken out immediately; 

 later on part of them were secured by a local physician. Doctor 

 Faggioli, who donated them to the Buenos Aires museum, and the 

 remainder were obtained later by the Ameghino brothers and Doctor 

 Cavazzuti. They are partially reported on by Professor Amegliino in 

 his memoir on the Diprothomo,^ where (p. 127, footnote 3) we read as 

 follows : 



"It is several months ago that my friend. Dr. Rodolphe Faggioli, 

 of Necochea, donated to the Museo Nacional, at my request, a fossil 

 human skull, which he found in the ancient Pampean formation of 

 that place. Last April I myself made an excursion to the locahty 

 to study its geology. I was accompanied by the naturalist- 

 traveler of the museum, Carlos Ameghino, and by Dr. E. Cavazzuti. 

 We explored the coast over a stretch of 80 km. with the greatest profit, 

 for I brought away a multitude of objects. Among these there are 

 two fossil human skulls from the same stratum as the one mentioned 

 above; of these skulls, one is in fragments, but the other is very 

 complete, with the rostrum, the lower jaw, and the teeth in nearly 

 perfect condition." 



As to the antiquity and principal characteristics of these speci- 

 mens, it will be best to give once more Ameghino's own words. He 

 says: 



"These three skulls are of the same age as that of JVIiramar, on 

 which I have founded the Homo pampseus. They all present the 

 same characteristics, including the excessively sloping forehead, 

 which is natural and not the result of an artificial deformation, as 

 has been alleged; all have the rostrum much prolonged forward and 

 the alveolar border and the denture orthognathic; all present a 

 glabella without backward inversion below, so that there is no 

 frontonasal depression; all present the last molar placed forward 

 of the most posterior part of the anterior border of the orbits; all 

 show the inferior border of the orbit placed considerably more 

 forward than the superior one; all are very doUchocephalic, with 

 excessively narrow foreheads, great orbits, and other characteristics." 



And further on (p. 170) in the same memoir we read about the 

 second Necochea cranium (third example of Homo pampseus) : 



"As in the case of the first example (Miramar), the conformation 

 of the frontal region is natural without any vestige of artificial 

 deformation; on this point there can not remain absolutely the 

 shghtest doubt." 



Notwithstanding the fact that the front is excessively^ low and 

 very sloping, "the superior outUne of the skull Ufts itself gradually 



1 Ameghino, F., I,e Diprothomo platensis; in Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, xix (ser. iii, I. xn), 1909, 

 pp. 127» root-note 3, 170 et seq.; illustrations especially on pp. 171, 179, 185. 



