58 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 38 
mlum, in no way deformed or diseased. The nasal bones are not 
above medium in size or prominence, and Leidy must have compared 
them with unusually small specimens to arrive at the conclusion that 
they are “large and prominent.” The glabella and supraorbital 
ridges are of moderate masculine dimensions, and remind the observer 
in no way of primitive cranial forms. There is but little left of the 
forehead, but what is present shows a fair degree of arching. The 
orbits are not massive and were mesoseme or slightly megaseme in 
form. The mastoids are well developed, masculine. The walls of 
the skull are of moderate thickness only. The maximum antero- 
posterior diameter (from glabella to most prominent point of occi- 
put) measured accurately amounts to 16.9 em., but it must have 
been a little greater before the specimen was damaged; the greatest 
breadth can not be measured, but must have been near 14 em.; in all 
probability the skull was mesocephalic. The sutures, so far as shown, 
are all patent, or were so before the fossilization took place. There 
is nothing unusual about the remaining visible parts. 
As to the geological age of the skull, it is safe to say that from the 
somatological standpoint there is absolutely nothing about the speci- 
men which could not be found in recent crania of Florida Indians. 
All anatomical indications of great antiquity are wholly lacking. 
The small size of the skull as well as its form is very nearly dupli- 
cated by nos. 228451 and 228452, two comparatively modern Indian 
skulls in the National Museum collection, from south of Lake Okee- 
chobee, Florida. | 
The North Osprey bones in the Museum collection consist of about 
twenty pieces of one or two adult skulls, parts of two left ossa 
innominata, a femur, a tibia, parts of an ulna and of two fibule, 
several vertebrae, portions of ribs, a patella, and a number of tarsal 
bones and phalanges. 
The skull pieces are rather above medium (Indian) in thickness 
(the right parietal 6 to 9 mm.), but show no compression or any 
abnormality. It is not possible to reconstruct enough of either 
cranium to show its size and form, but the size can be judged of as 
quite ordinary, and as to the form the uniform convexity of the 
occipital bone speaks against any higher grade of dolichocephaly. 
The upper jaw (plate vr), which is left almost entire, shows a 2.6 
em. wide nasal aperture, a high and strong nasal spine, and quite a 
marked grade of alveolar prognathism—less than in the negro and 
about equal to that of the present-day Indian. There were 16 
second dentition teeth of moderate size, the canines and the incisors 
being rather submedium. All the teeth that are still present show 
a moderately advanced degree of wear. The palate measures, ex- 
ternally, about 5.4 cm. in length and 6.2 cm. in greatest breadth, 
and is quite deep and parabolic in form. The lower jaw is appar- 
