A New Publication Concerning the Vero Remains. 



Just as the last revision of the foregoing report has been com- 

 pleted, still another publication concerning the Vero remains and 

 the deposits reaches the author. It bears the general title of " Addi- 

 tional Studies in the Pleistocene at Vero, Florida,"^ and includes 

 five papers, as follows: 



The Fossil Plants from Vero. Florida, by Edward W. Berry.° 



Fossil Birds Found at Vero, Florida, with Descriptions of New Species, by R. W. 

 Shufeldt. 



Vertebrata Mostly from Stratum No. 3 at Vero, Florida ; Together with De- 

 scriptions of New Species, by Oliver P. Hay.' 



Review of the Evidence on which the Human Remains Found at Vero are 

 Referred to the Pleistocene, by E. H. Sellards. 



Supplement to Studies in the Pleistocene at Vero. Florida, by E. H. Sellards.* 



The reports by Messrs. Berry, Shufeldt, and Hay deal with the 

 antiquity of the various organic remains from the Vero deposits, and 

 can have no special interest for the student of the antiquity of the 

 human remains found in the same deposits so long as the contempo- 

 raneity of the human and other remains is not definitely established 

 so as to be acceptable to anthropology. As to Dr. Sellards's report, 

 it is partly a reprint of that in the American Anthropologist (April- 

 June, 1917) and for the rest is paleontological. It brings, however, 

 several rather valuable photographs relating to some of the human 

 finds which show well the nature of some of the deposits and what 

 has been described as stratification. Dr. Sellarcls's conclusions, as 

 previousl}', are that — 



" The human remains and artifacts are contemporaneous with ex- 

 tinct species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and at least one extinct 

 species of plant, as well as with other animal and plant species that 

 do not at the present time extend their range into Florida. The age 

 of the deposits containing these fossils, according to the accepted in- 

 terpretation of faunas and floras, is Pleistocene." 



As the interest in the Vero deposits continues there is a strong hope 

 that a human burial in much better condition than those thus far 

 found may be discovered. Meanwhile the amount of painstaking 

 work carried out on the organic non-human remains from the locality 

 must surely be most welcome to all paleontologists. 



1 From the ^'inth Annual Report of the Florida State Geological Survey, 1917, 17-82. 



^ Published also in Journal of Geology, Oct.-Nov., 1917, C61-G66. 



' Has published also a paper " On the finding of supposed Pleistocene human remains 

 at Voro, Fla.," Journ. Wash. Acad. Set., 1917, vii, 258-260. 



* Refers also to. the following two communications : Note on the Deposits Containing 

 Human Remains and Artifacts at Vero, Fla., by E. H. Sellards, Journ. Geology, Oct.- 

 Nov.. 1917, XXV, 659-G60 ; Further Studies at Vero, Fla., by Rollin T. Chamberlain, 

 Journ. Geology, Oct.-Nov., 1917, xxv, 667-683. 



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