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science. But little vague or unmeaning discussion was tolerated 
or offered. 
A number of papers were entered touching more or less direetly 
ter interstratified with auriferous gold. Its true character wasn0t — 
recognized at the time it was thrown out, a nearly shapeless mass 
from the agglutination of calcareous matter and gravel im 
especially at the ‘base of the skull. As soon as its true nature was 
seen it became the object of attention, and was, by Mr. Mattesonits 
discoverer, placed with Dr. Jones of Murphy’s, who is well known 
in t i id all things rare and 
urious. This collector soon communicated it to the office of the 
skull was thrown out, and has never since been pumped out or & 
humed, and stands to-day as it was at the date of the alleged dis 
these 
The important point in Prof, Whitney’s communication ¥! Dr 
n tibia t oso 
this skeleton, and a shell of Helia mormonensis.* There W 
son. e egion was large; but whether the sya 
long or broad is bat certain The orbits of the eye the alveolst 
metrical, due, as was believed, to the absorption of the t side. 
bt 
rocesses of the left jaw product g a depression on bi it 20" 
ese are, substanti the 
ands. The geological horizon to which it is referable, 
* HZ. Mormonensis is « species of Helix now living in Calaveras == 
flat dise and . 
