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under the north and south ditch dug with my stepson and found a jumble of 
what I believe are the skeletal parts of a youth. 
The next operations were made with Mr. Bankey. We took from a 3-foot 
level on the northeast corner of the intersection of both ditches, or at the north 
end of the north and south ditch, a badly mashed skull in some score or more 
of pieces. I believe this is no. x in the collection. The skull is very thin, and 
when taken out it was hard to tell which way it lay. There were also two 
femur bones reposing vertically, which led to the belief that the body had been 
buried squatting. 
I had determined when at work with my stepson and again verified in my 
own mind when working with Mr. Case that an intrusive burial had taken 
place. 
I first showed the crania of nos. 3, 4, and 5 to people in the office of the World- 
Herald, then to Dr. EK. C. Henry, demonstrator of anatomy at Creighton Medical 
College in Omaha, and Doctor Henry wrote a description of them, which we 
published. I took the three skulls to Lincoln and showed them to Doctor Ward 
and Professor Barbour. . . . When the featured article in the World- 
Herald of October 21 reached my brothers and sisters in New York, they noti- 
fied Prof. Henry Fairchild Osborn, who came at once to Omaha, examined the 
material and gave me a statement for publication. Skulls nos. 1 and 2 had 
been added since Doctor Ward and Professor Barbour had seen the collection, 
and Professor Osborn immediately noted a variation and cailed on me for an 
explanation, which was given him as I give it to you. 
A week after my story was figured in the World-Herald of October 21, Joseph’s 
father called me by telephone and told me that his son had a skull similar to 
the ones figured. I visited his house and saw the similarity to my own crania. 
His mother told me to take it, that her son was at the university, and that she 
knew he would be glad to have it go with the others. 
The lad came to see me a month afterwards. He said he had been looking for 
Indian turnips in the neighborhood of Long’s hill and had come onto the old 
excavation Made by the three men twelve years ago. He said he had, with the 
aid of his knife and sticks, penetrated into the old loose earth and run onto 
skull no. 6 when he had gotten down to a level of his shoulders. He is nearly 
6 feet tall. It took him a half day to get it out with a large pocketknife, and 
he also found a portion of another. He thought it was an Indian skull and 
took it home. With the skull was a piece of a jaw (lower), and this fitted 
exactly with the one found by Mr. Bankey. 
I have said little about this skull. Joseph thinks he can get a fortune 
for it. 
With or near the bones discovered by Mr. Gilder were several 
stone implements, among them two flint blades of ordinary form. 
There was no trace of pottery. The better-preserved bones were 
collected and kept about Mr. Gilder’s house until the question of 
possible geological antiquity of the deeper burials arose, when they 
were transferred to the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln. 
On November 16 Prof. E. H. Barbour, geologist and paleontologist 
of the University of Nebraska, by arrangement with Mr. Gilder, took 
charge of the further excavations. As the work progressed he became 
convinced that the bones of the lower levels—that is, those more than 
44 feet, approximately, from the surface, were contemporaneous with 
the original (lacustrine) loess deposits; and thenceforth the excava- 
