FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 45 



in situ and their exact association must remain in a large measure 

 uncertain. The skeleton lay in an inclined plane. The bones show 

 no trace of washing or weathering. The majority of them are 

 broken, but many of the breaks are sharp and evidently fresh, 



Fig. i. — Top view of skull of skeleton No. II, from the base of muck bed (layer 

 No. 3), south bank of the drainage canal, Vero. 



c = clay; portion of frontal bleached by exposure. 



dating probably from the time when parts of the skeleton were 

 exposed in the bank or tumbled out of it. 



Bones of three other individuals are found in the collection 

 made by Dr. Sellards' party. They are a juvenile or a young 

 adult incisor tooth from layer No. 3, in the vicinity of skeleton 

 No. II; a tooth of a young child from stratum 3 on the opposite 



