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eight feet gave no evidence of man, although yielding remains of 
animals to the bottom indicating the early accessibility of the cave. 
In general, the depth of cave earth was less than this. The human 
relics were abundant but not varied in kind and implied but one type 
of civilization. Potsherds were by far the most abundant, some 
decorated with incised lines and a few colored. Only a few imple- 
ments were found. Human bones were occasionally present. Of the 
vertebrates identified by Professor Cope there were three batrachians, 
six reptiles, nine aves, and sixteen mammalia, thirty-three species in 
all. Members of each of these groups were found beneath the relic- 
bearing layer at depths varying from six to fourteen feet, twenty-two 
instances being tabulated. Of the shells, eleven species were identi- 
fied by Pilsby; eight instances of occurrence below the human layer 
being tabulated. ‘These data show abundantly the accessibility of the 
caves before the incursion of man. 
The author’s conclusions are: ‘“ /vrs¢, That no earlier inhabitant 
had preceded the builders of the ruined cities in Yucatan. 
“Second, That the people revealed in the caves had reached the 
country in geologically recent times. 
“« Third, That these people, substantially the ancestors of the pres- 
ent Maya Indians, had not developed their culture in Yucatan, but 
had brought it with them from somewhere else.” ab. EGS 
New Evidence of Glacial Man in Ohio. By PROFESSOR G. 
FREDERICK WricHtT. Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly, 
December 1895. 
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The ‘fresh discovery recently brought to light,” which constitutes 
the subject of this article, is, in reality, a discovery made more than 
three years ago. It therefore antedates the recent controversy respect 
ing the evidence of glacial man in America which the author revives 
and makes his point of departure, and on which he strives to bring to 
bear this evidence as something recent. ‘The central point of that 
controversy was the untrustworthiness of the old methods of observing 
and interpreting the supposed evidence of glacial man. ‘The sharp 
criticisms which provoked it were sorely needed, as the event has shown, 
to reform the loose methods then prevailing. This “fresh discovery” 
belongs to the ante-reform period, and is to be weighed accordingly. 
