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bones in the section lie tlien called ]\Ir. Weills, and to,ti;etlier they removed the 

 bones. The parts of the skeleton obtained include the risht and left fennir, 

 lacking the extremities ; right patella ; left tibia and fragments of the right ; 

 right fibula; right calcaneum; right and left astragalus; left navicular; ex- 

 ternal cuneiform of the right foot ; right metatarsals one to four ; left metatar- 

 sals three to five ; a part of the shaft of the left humerus ; right os magnum ; 

 three metacarpals ; and three phalanges. All of these bones pertain appar- 

 ently to the same specimen, representing a small individual. From the lower 

 margin of the lesser tuberosity to the upper margin of the inner condylar notch, 

 the fennir measures 29 cm., the corresi»onding measurement on the femur of a 

 large modern adult being as much as 32 cm. The extremities of the larger 

 limb bones of this skeleton are but poorly preserved, a condition common to 

 many of the bones in this sand, although the bones foiind in muck in this bed 

 are as a rule more nearly comiilete. 



The section of the bank at the place where the.se human bones were found 

 is as follows : 



Feet. Inches. 



Sandy bard marl rock 1 ?, 



Sand stained brown by organic matter 3 9 



Marine shell marl to water level in the canal ."> 9 



The marl rock and the brown sand beneath represent stratum No. 2 of the 

 general section (text figure 2), the alluvial bed, No. 3 of the section, being 

 absent at this place. The human remains were imbedded in the brown sand 

 about 3 feet from the base or 2 feet from the ground surface as it existed 

 previous to the construction of the canal. 



That the sands in which the human remains are found represent a con- 

 tinuation of the stratum holding the other vertebrate fossils there can be no 

 question, as the section is continuous along the canal bank and the deposits 

 identical in appearance. FAephas cohuiihi, Equus leidyi, and other extinct 

 species are found at an equal or higher level in the beds on either side of the 

 human remains. From the marl rock which lies at the top of the section the 

 writer obtained, within 6 feet of the place where the human skeleton lay, a 

 premolar tooth of a fox, representing not the common gray fox of that region, 

 but either an extinct species or possibly the red fox, Viilpcs prnnftiilrdiiiriis, 

 which at present is not known in Florida. In immediate association with the 

 human bones were the scapula and astragalus of a deer, which is also found 

 elsewhere in the sand, being one of the common fossils of the bone bed. In 

 addition a hyoid Itone of the sloth, Mcdnlnnri.r jcffcrsonii, and pieces of the 

 teeth of the mastodon, Jilammut americanum, have been collected from the 

 canal bank at the place where the human bones were found. 



/Second skeleton. 



[Pp. 140-142.] In February, 1916, Mr. Ayers obtained a human right ulna 

 which, although not found in place, was recognized as having been derived from 

 the bank, since the degree of mineralization was similar to that of the asso- 

 ciated vertebrate fossils. The skeleton from which this bone came, however, 

 was not located at that time. Again, in April, 1916, INIr. Ayers found the 

 distal end of a humerus, which, although not in place, had recently fallen 

 from the bank. The discovery of this bone led to the location in the bank of 

 ether bones belonging to the same skeleton to which belongs also the ulna 

 found three months earlier. The place of these bones in the section may be 

 seen from the photograph fpl. 6, fig. 11, which shows the left ulna, fenmr, 

 and radius as they lay in the bank. All of these bones were at the base of 



