THE " FOSSIL '' MAN OF VERO, FLORIDA 



Preliminary Remarks 



The discoA'ery of "fossil hninun remains'" at Vero, on the eastern 

 coast of Ilorida, was recently announced by Dr. E. IT. Sellards, State 

 Geologist.^ In the early part of October a more extended report on 

 these finds, by the same author, appeared,- and other communications 

 on the subject were sent to scientific journals.^' Meanwhile, generous 

 invitations to visit Vero were extended by Dr. Sellards to a num- 

 ber of scientific men interested in the subject, as a result of which the 

 last few daj's of October found his camp at Vero filled to capacity. 

 The party included, besides Dr. Sellards and JSIr. IL Gunter, his 

 assistant. Dr. Rollin C. Ohamberlin, of the I^niversit}' of Chicago, 

 and Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, geologists; Dr. O. F. Hay, of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, vertebrate paleontologist; Prof. George Grant MacCurdy, of 

 the Peabody Museum, Yale University, archeologist and anthro- 

 pologist; and the writer. A stay of two to five days was made by the 

 several members of the party, and, notwithstanding insects, rain, and 

 finally a partial flood, the localitj' of the finds, together .with the 

 vicinity, was fairly well examined. (PI. 1.) The reports of the mem- 

 bers of the party on the results of their observations, including a pre- 

 liminary account of similar nature by the writer, will be found in the 

 January-February, 1917, number of The Jommal of Geology, and are 

 refeiTed to later in this memoir. In this place is ])resented a more 

 complete account of the subject so far as it relates to the human bones. 



History of the Discoveries 



The essential features of the history of the discoveries, as given by 

 Dr. Sellards in the Eighth Aninud Re pari of flic Florida State 

 Geological Survey, are given beloAv. The account is preceded by a 

 brief summary, which reads as follows: 



[P. 123] A new and very important locality for vertebrate, invertebrate, and 

 plant fossils was found in 1913 at Vero on the Atlantic coast in central-eastern 



1 Sellards, E. H., On the Discovery of Fossil Human Remains in Florida in Association 

 with Extinct Vertebrates, Amer. Journ. SIci., ser. 4, xlii, pp. 1-18, 1016. 



2 Human Remains and Associated Fossils from the Pleistocene of Florida. Ei<ilith Ann. 

 Rep. Fla. State Geol. Sliirv.. 1016. pp. 121-160. 



3 Human Remains from the I'leistocene.of Florida, Science, n. s. vol. XLiv, pp. 015-617, 

 New York. Oct. 27, 1916. 



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