54 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 33 
The specimen was sent by Mr. Webb as a gift to the Smithsonian 
Institution, and what remains of it is now in the collections of the 
division of physical anthropology of the National Museum. <A short 
account of it was published in 1889 by Prof. Joseph Leidy.¢ On 
continuing the excavation 
‘ in the same place some ad- 
| ee, w’ |) F}| ditional pieces of human 
é bones were found, but Mr. 
r , eubraria Webb does not now know 
wot 0) OSPREY bir ia ze what condition they were 
ale? or what became of them. 
Tur Nortn Osprey Bones 
siimigae 
About 1872, in digging 
another ditch in a shallow 
dry pond bed on the north- 
ern part of his property, 
about ten minutes’ walk 
from the location of the 
s above-mentioned skull, Mr. 
Pm Webb and his son, J. W. 
2, Webb, discovered, “ less 
than 3 feet deep,” another 
Cries 4 lot of fossilized human 
bones, and these also were 
sent to the Smithsonian 
Institution.” There was no ferruginous or other rock in the neigh- 
borhood of these bones, and their fossilization is of a different nature 
from that of the Osprey skull. Most of these specimens, which are 
in very good condition for study, are preserved in the National 
Museum, a few pieces are in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge (men- 
tioned in the Seventh Annual Report of that institution, 1874, 
page 26), and a few other portions are in the Army Medical Museum. 
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Fic. 8. 
Sketch map of Osprey and vicinity. 
“Notice of Some Fossil Human Bones, Transactions of the Wagner Iree Institute of 
Science, 11, 9-12, Philadelphia, 1889. a 
» The exact location is described by J. W. Webb, in a recent letter, as follows: “ North 
of the old sugar mill, on the road to Guptrel, is a ditch running east and west, which 
drains the ‘Banana’ pond; the ditch which now runs on line between the lowland on 
the south and the sandy land on the north used to run through the lowland. If a 
point is taken in a line of the second row of orange trees east of the road a little more 
than halfway from the northernmost tree to the ditch, it will about correspond to the site 
of the old ditch where the bones were taken out. In this lot there were arm and leg 
bones and parts of skull and part of a jaw. They were less than 3 feet deep.’ 
