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rial are found," but his photographs and figures showing the location 

 of the bones and drawn and reproduced " to scale " do not bear 

 out this statement. They show that the remains lay in an inclined 

 plane — a circumstance also of some importance — and at the following 

 depths : 



Depth of occurrence of Skeleton II, as given by photographs and drawings 



by Dr. Scllardft ' 



1 All from Eighth Ann. Rep. Florida State Geological Survey, Oct., 1916. 



2 A foot scale accompanying the photograph fully confirms these measurements. 



3 Not indicated. 



The above measurements make also necessary a modification of 

 Dr. Sellards's statement on page 142, that the radius " lay at an 

 actual level fully 2 feet lower than the ulna." The difference in 

 level between the ulna and the lowest part of the radius, as shown 

 by the photograph in his plate 17, is actually only 1 foot 5 inches. 



Another point in connection with Skeleton II which calls for 

 explanation or rectification is that embodied in the first sentence 

 of the second paragraph on page 142 of Dr. Sellards's report, 

 which reads : " By reference to the text figures and to the description 

 of the fossils it will be seen that the bones of this skeleton lying 

 at the contact line between strata 2 and 3 are found on either side 

 and around the bones found in place in the older stratum No. 2." 

 Neither the text, nor figures 5 and 6, nor photograph 1 on plate 17, 

 bear out this statement.^ 



Still another uncertainty concerns the association of animal bones 

 with the bones of this human skeleton. On page 139 of his mono- 

 graph. Dr. Sellards enumerates a rather large number of bones 

 of fossil vertebrates " which have been found in stratum No. 2 in 



1 Since this was written the point was called to the attention of Dr. Sellards, from 

 whom the writer has received the following answer : " With regard to the place of the 

 bones at the contact line between strata 2 and 3, the words 'on either side' and around ' 

 are best replaced by the word ' near." Some were found not so far in the bank, while 

 others were farther in the bank than those in No. 12. All of the bones on the contact 

 line, however, were farther west than those in No. "_', hence the word ' around ' is not 

 strictly applicable." * 



