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ity of its chamber. In so far as it differs in dimensions from the 
other crania from California, it sepsenches the peat oii 3 The 
hot ” Frontal Length of Heightof Zygomatic 
Arch. Frontal. Cranium, Diameter. 
22 oh ag ececes featee saat ary 2965 1266 135 137°6 
5 from Alaska. 2s. 2.0222.. 133°5 92°38 285°5 1218 1295 132 
11 rom afore so ale of Cal. 150°5 93°5 260 117 120°8 134 
3 Digger Indians ________- 136°6 88-3 280 119 1203» -141°5 
The Fos cay skull ee 150 101 300 128 134 145 
Professor Te regards the gravels as Pre-Glacial, eH Plio- 
cene, on the basis of the evidence from the fossils fou nd in them. 
cin origin of tbe gravels remains to be discussed by oy in the 
ond part of the volume, ete, Or to a prefatory note, 
will be published i in a few m 
8. : 
‘tii iY y 23, Ay, sth sent to rey Imperial 
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torius putorius, F. erminea ees go serotinas, Arvicola pte 
tus, A. sp., Lepus variabilis (timidus ?), Cricetus Srumentarius, 
wT 9 OLUS qlss, and Sciurus vulgaris. Besides these seventeen spe- 
cles, von Hochstetter found remains of Hlephas primigentus, Rhi- 
noceros pees, Equus fossilis, Bos priscus, Cervus tarandus, 
U. elaph us, C. capreolus, C. euryceros (7), srr WS ibex, pipes spe- 
spelea, and Hycna number of species 
found in the Vypustek Cave being therefore twenty-nine. The 
evidence proves that this cave was of beasts of prey, long 
ten : families of hyenas and b and oce ally vis- 
ears 
ited by lions, lynxes and wolves; while many side galleries, some 
Opening today gave shelter to martens, weasels and other small 
carnivores. w animals may have been carried into the 
Cave after os by streams and floods; but by far the greater’ 
ele of the {poy aps are re She of tenants of the cave, or of their 
environs were covered with woods, and had a forest climate, at 
_* This is the breadth of the frontal at its narrowest part when the skull is 
Viewed from aboy. 
+ Measured from the anterior edge of the foramen magnum to the level of the 
_ of the frontal, and an inch behind it on aba inside, (These measurements can, 
urse, be considered only as approximations; the fragmen condition 
sul nis connection : 
+ 
must be taken into consideration in this 
