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HRDLICKA] SKELETAL REMAINS 
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About 8 miles north of Osprey and on the same line of shore is a 
locality called, after its owner, Hanson’s landing, and here also some 
fossil human bones, consisting of a skull and several other parts of 
the skeleton, were discovered. [Early in 1886 this locality was visited 
by Prof. Angelo Heilprin and Mr. Joseph Wilcox, and several parts 
of a fossilized human skeleton were actually found in situ. Pro- 
fessor Heilprin described the find“ as follows: 
I was conducted to a spot where it had been reported a human skeleton lay 
embedded in the rock. The rock I found to be a partially indurated ferrugi- 
nous sandstone, removed but a short distance from the sea and but barely ele- 
vated above it; the condition of its exposure was doubtless the result of recent 
sea waste. I was much surprised to find actually embedded in this rock 
and more or less firmly united with it the skeletal remains of a mammalian 
which I had little difficulty in determining to be the genus homo. Most of the 
parts, including the entire head, had at various times been removed by the 
curiosity seekers of the neighborhood, but enough remained to indicate the 
position occupied by the body in the matrix. The depression which received 
the head was still very plainly marked, but unfortunately the outline had 
been too much disturbed to permit of any satisfactory impression being taken 
from it. I was able to disengage from a confused mass of stone and skeleton 
two of the vertebre, which Doctor Leidy has kindly determined for me to be 
in all probability the last dorsal and first lumbar. The distinctive cancellated 
structure of bone is still plainly visible, but the bone itself has been completely 
replaced by limonite. 
The same locality was visited again the following spring by Mr. 
Wilcox, who obtained several specimens of fossilized human bones, 
among which was a fairly well-preserved calcaneum. JT inally, on 
still another occasion, Mr. Wilcox secured at Hanson’s landing “a 
piece of the rock containing the end of a human thigh bone, also 
altered into limonite,” which specimen he gave to the University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Tue SoutH Osprey Remains 
About 1888 Mr. J. G. Webb and his son-in-law, Mr. Griffith, in 
looking for “ phosphate rocks” ”’ along the shore, discovered about 
a mile and a half south of Osprey the remains of a human skeleton 
embedded in and partly projecting from the exposed rock. The 
following interesting notes concerning this find were furnished by 
Mr. J. G. Webb in a letter addressed to Dr. W. H. Dall, dated October 
29,1890: 
[The human bones embedded in rock] were found on the shore washed by 
every tide, but not so always or very long. The mainland shores of the bay 
«Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1, 14-15, Philadelphia, 1887. 
bThe so-called phosphate rocks in this region consist of ancient water-worn fossil 
bones, particularly ribs of large cetaceans. These fossils are found, already in their 
water-worn condition, cemented in the shore rocks and are now being washed out wherever 
the rocks are exposed to the action of the waves. 
