THE GEOLOGIC RELATIONS OF THE HUMAN 

 RELICS OF LANSING, KANSAS. 



Under the title "A Fossil Man from Kansas," Professor Wil- 

 liston announced in Science of August I, the discovery of human 

 remains in alluvium near the mouth of a ravine opening on the 

 flood plain of the Missouri river near Lansing, Kansas. He gave 

 a careful description of the circumstances of the discovery, of 

 the nature and condition of the skeleton, and of the enveloping 

 deposit. He confidently excluded all forms of intrusion and of 

 burial by creeping or sliding, attested fully the true fossil nature 

 of the remains, and referred them to that stage of the postglacial 

 period when the Missouri river was running forty or fifty feet 

 higher than now. 



Previous to this there had been references to the discovery in 

 the press, which had attracted the attention of Mr. M. C. Long, 

 curator of the museum of Kansas City, who visited the locality, 

 secured as many of the bones as practicable, brought the matter 

 to the attention of neighboring scientists, and through them to 

 the scientific world. 



In Science of August 29, under the title, "Man in Kansas 

 During the Iowan Stage of the Glacial Period," Mr. Warren 

 Upham gave a brief statement of his observations and conclusions 

 based on a visit to the locality on August 9, in company with 

 Professors Winchell, Williston, Haworth, Mr. Long and others. 

 Mr. Upham regarded the overlying deposit as loess of the Iowan 

 age, and concluded that the skeleton had been " entombed at the 

 beginning of the loess deposition, which would refer it to the 

 Iowan stage of the glacial period, long after the ice sheet had 

 receded from Missouri and Kansas, but while it still enveloped 

 northern Iowa and nearly all of Wisconsin and Minnesota." 



In the American Geologist for September, he presented the 

 subject with greater fullness under the title, " Man in the Ice Age 

 at Lansing, Kansas, and Little Falls, Minnesota." As before, 

 the inhumation was referred to the Iowan stage of glaciation, 



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