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1, Black lava, - - - - . . 40 feet. 
2. Gravel, - - 4 - P 3 
3. aa lava, - ek ae 30 “ 
4,G - - * a 5 Lg 5 « 
5. Light lava, . arene - - ii 
6. G jetta tee (set wie gg 
7. Dark tes laity - - - - Dias 
8. Sate - ee - - - Bauer 
ay 2 eeclheage ety oo SORE a OE 
10. Red var’ : - - s = = 7 
153 feet. 
The skull was a pesttediniy to Mr. Matson, in bed No. 8, just above 
the lowest stratum of lava. With the skull were found fragments of 
silicified wood, ike whole being covered and partly incrusted with stony 
matter, so that the fact of its being a skull was not recognized until after 
h Ps Mr. Scribner’s hands, by whom it was cleaned and 
presented . 
he skull is ane by. Mr. Matson to have been taken from the shaft 
be wag 25th, 1866, and it came into m my hands in the July — 
was procured. A careful i oe into = the circumstances of the alleged 
discovery, and an interview with all the persons who had-been in any - 
way connected with it, im abies pee my mind the conviction that the 
acts were as stated above, and that ivan was every reason to believe 
that the skull really came from the n assigned to it by Mr. Matson. 
Still, as it is me aan igians désivabha that as — an amount of evi- 
dence as possi ould be accumulated in regard to a discovery of so 
much importance, 7 tale arrangements that I arent. be ak ame 
ever the eopened and the water taken out, a ta 
future meeting to be able to lay before the Academy the results of a 
, examination of this interesting — and of further excava- 
tene:te:the: bed from which the skull w 
eager the correctness of Mr. Mataon’s 8 saat ale this relic of hu- 
lived at a very ron lly speaking), and ane 
epoch of (es Sees Tolnam after” 
