ADDENDA 



Since the preceding report was completed, four additional publica- 

 tions on some of the remains attributed to ancient man in South 

 America have reached the writer, and he has learned that the sub- 

 ject is also dealt with in a more general way in thi'ee recent works 

 which thus far he has not seen, namely: 



Branca, W., Der Stand unserer Kenntnisse von fossilen Menschen, Liepzig, 1910; 

 Sergi, G., L'Uomo secondo le origini, I'antirhitu, le variazioni e la distribuzione 

 geografica, Torino, 1911; and Frassetto, F., Lezioni di Antropologia, 2 vols., 

 Bologna, 1911. 



Of the four special papers above mentioned the first to reach the 

 writer was that "On ancient man and his predecessors in Argentina," 

 by K. Stolyhwo,^ one of the European delegates to the International 

 American Congress of Sciences, held at Buenos Aires in July, 1911. 



Stolyhwo examined the more important of the skeletal remains 

 and his conclusions are as follows: 



The skull of Arrecifcs (p. 28) : "On the basis of personal examina- 

 tion of the specimen I am of the opinion that its form is that of the 

 contemporary man.'' 



The skull of !^^iramar (pp. 33-34) : ' ' Shows an artificial deforma- 

 tion." 



The Necochea specimens: "Skull No. I is not artificially deformed 

 and its form corresponds completely to that of H. sapiens.'" No. II 

 shows traces of post-mortem deformation. No. Ill is deformed arti- 

 ficially besides showing poor reconstruction, including that of the 

 orbits. Further, these specimens show no peculiar features in com- 

 parison with the skull of H. sapiens and should not be regarded as 

 distinct therefrom. They differ in no essential features from skulls 

 of the American natives. 



As to the Diprothomo (pp. 34-38), the special features of the frag- 

 ment as described by Ameghino became apparent only through faulty 

 orientation of the specimen. The fragment "shows no important 

 difference from a similar part in the present man." The length of 

 the frontal, on which stress has been laid, is duplicated and even 



1 stolyhwo, K., W sprawie czlowieka kopalnego i jego poprzednikow w Argentynie; in Sprawozdania 

 zposiedzen Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego, iv. No. 1, Warsaw, 19U, pp. 21-41. 



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