Fossil Skull. 



French Skull, 



170 mm. 



178 mm. 



131 " 



132 " 



102 " 



104 " 



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and contiguous portions of the face accord with the usual condition in a 

 white man's skull. The superciliary ridges are but moderately produced 

 and the nasal bones are large and prominent. The occiput has the usual 

 appearance, while its muscular markings are not more developed than 

 commonly. 



Comparative measurements of the fossil with a French skull are as 

 follows : 



Glabella to occipital protuberance, 

 Breadth above the auditory meatu.ses, 

 Breadth of forehead at the temporal ridges, 



Among the discoveries of Mr. Willcox, in Florida, are some remains of 

 the great extinct Bison latifrons, consisting of a huge horn-core, subse- 

 quently lost by accident, and the proximal portion of a radius. The speci- 

 mens were found on Rocky Creek, thirty miles north of Sarasota Bay, about 

 two and a half or three feet below the surface, in a formation which Mr. 

 Willcox regards as of more recent age than the sandstone in which the 

 human bones were discovered. 



The fragment of the radius mentioned comprises eleven inches of the 

 proximal portion of the bone. It accords closely in anatomical character 

 with the corresponding portion of the radius of the recent Bison aviericanus, 

 differing only in its greater size. Its comparative measurements are as 

 follows : 



B. latifrons. B. americanus. 



Proximal end of radius, transversely, . . 130 mm. 92 mm. 



Middle of shaft of " " ... 68 " 48 " 



in thickness, . . . 46 " 36 " 



