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were lately exhumed, and the greater part broken np, and 

 spread upon compost heaps. Dr. Leidy has recovered one 

 pretty complete skull, which he exhibited before the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences, at its last meeting, and expressed 

 a decided opinion in favor of its European origin. Professor 

 Cope's opinion was equally confident, that the remains were 

 those of no aboriginal Indian race. Professor Trego sug- 

 gested that they belonged to that early Finnish or Swedish 

 Colony, which attempted a settlement on the banks of the 

 Delaware, a short while previous to the arrival of the Hol- 

 landers and Quakers, under William Penn. The bodies were 

 all taken from a shallow trench, not more than 8 feet wide 

 by 16 long ; they had been laid in two tiers or stages, one 

 above the other, and there was no relic, ornament, tool, wea- 

 pon, or fragment of clothing, to suggest relationship to any 

 age or race ; and no appearance of a tumulus. 



Prof. Cope exhibited three large photographic pictures of 

 figures of the human foot incised in upper cretaceous red 

 sandstone, near Topeka, thought by western men to be fossil 

 impressions. The shadows in the photographic copies 

 showed plainly the nature of the marks, for the ball of the 

 great toe was an elevation, instead of a depression, and the 

 cutting was carried round the ends of the intervals between 

 the toes. A discussion of the use of the foot in aboriginal 

 picture writing followed. 



Dr. Carson recalled the exhibition of a sculptured rock, 

 showing rivers and game, a sort of guide map, taken from 

 the Susquehanna River banks, by Prof. Walter R. Johnson, 

 at the Academy of Nat. Sciences or Plistorical Society, about 

 1836 or 1837, and expressed his desire that it should be re 

 covered for use, in comparison with later discoveries. 



Dr. Brinton being questioned as to the amount of credence 

 to be given to Baron De Waldeck's alleged Elephant or Mas- 

 todon figures, supposed to be recognisable among the hiero- 

 glyphics of Mexico, replied that he had had the opportunity 

 of examining M. Charancy's photographs, and agreed with 

 the latter, that no such figures could be made out from the 



