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ently that of a male (as are in all probability all the other skull 
fragments) ; it shows a fairly well-developed chin and alveolar pro- 
trusion in a moderate degree. Horizontal length of the lower ramus 
is about 9.8 cm.; height at symphisis is 3.5 cm. There were 16 
lower second dentition teeth; the molars of moderate size, the others 
rather submedium; the remaining teeth are normal in form, but are 
somewhat worn down. The upper and lower jaws fit well together 
and undoubtedly belong to the same cranium. 
The two ossa innominata indicate medium masculine size and 
massiveness and are in no way peculiar in form. One measured 
about 19.5 cm. in. greatest height and 14.2 cm. in greatest breadth 
(between the anterior-superior and the posterior-superior spines). 
The femur (plate vit) measures 40.5 cm. in the bicondylar and 40.7 
em. in maximum length; the neck shows an angle of 130°; the shaft 
approaches type 1, or the prismatic, in form® and is of moderate 
strength; the index of the subtrochanteric flattening is 75.8; and 
there is present a quite pronounced third trochanter. The tibia 
(plate vir), measured without the spine but with the malleolus, is 
34 em. long and moderately platyecnemic (index at middle 64.9, at 
nutritive foramen 63.8). The inclination of the head is such as 
would be considered about medium in an Indian; traces of some 
sheht superficial inflammatory process are apparent on the lower 
third of the bone. The remaining bones and fragments are all char- 
acterized by moderate dimensions, and none show any disease or 
abnormality. 
When compared with ordinary recent Indian skeletons, it is found 
that not a single piece of the North Osprey bones exhibits any charac- 
teristic that is beyond the range of normal variation of modern 
specimens. As with the Osprey skull, there is again possible only 
one conclusion, namely, that there is absolutely nothing in these bones 
which would suggest great or even considerable antiquity, geologic- 
ally speaking. 
As to the Hanson Landing finds, all seem to have belonged to one 
skeleton, buried in the ground, before its consolidation took place. 
About all that can be said of the bones from the somatological stand- 
point is contained in the report of Professor Leidy,’? who states, with 
special reference to the better-preserved specimens of Mr. Wilcox, 
“They do not differ in any respect from corresponding recent human 
bones.” 
The South Osprey fossils (plate vim, a, 0) in the hands of the 
writer, are so defective and so embedded in the rock that but little 
can be said regarding them anatomically. There are visible parts 
@See Typical Forms of Shaft of Long Bones, Proceedings of the Association of Ameri- 
can Anatomists, 14th session, 55 et seq., 1900. | 
b Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 11, 10, Philadelphia, 1889. 
