XL A PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF THE PLEISTOCENE 



FAUNA DISCOVERED IN A CAVE OPENED AT 



FRANKSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, IN 



APRIL AND MAY, 1907. x 



By W. J. Holland. 



(Plates LVII-LVIII.) 



In the latter part of April of the present year the writer received 

 messages from Mr. H. H. Jack and Mr. E. H. L. Page of Hollidays- 

 burg, Pa., calling attention to the fact that there had been discovered 

 in the quarries of the American Lime and Stone Company near Franks- 

 town, Pa., the fossil remains of a number of large animals, and sug- 

 gesting that a careful examination of the locality should be made. 

 Mr. O. A. Peterson of the Section of Paleontology in the Carnegie 

 Museum was promptly dispatched to the spot with instructions to 

 report upon the character of the deposits. He returned after a few 

 days bringing with him some material of sufficient interest to cause 

 the writer to feel justified in requesting him to return to the locality 

 and to carefully continue the work of recovering whatever might be 

 found. He spent nearly three weeks in the work, being visited during 

 that time by the writer, who made a careful inspection of the site and 

 helped a little in the task of recovering specimens. A great deal of 

 assistance was accorded to Mr. Peterson by Mr. James King Henry, 

 the Superintendent of the American Lime and Stone Company, who 

 not only instructed his men while at work to help Mr. Peterson so far 

 as was possible, but himself with great kindness at times personally 

 aided Mr. Peterson in the laborious task of taking up the deposits which 

 were encountered. 



The quarries of the American Lime and Stone Company are situated 



on the top of a hill rising about four hundred feet in height above the 



banks of the Juniata. The kilns of the Lime and Stone Company are 



located in the historic hamlet of Frankstown, in Blair County, on the 



line of the Petersburgh branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The 



limestone in which work is being carried on, is a fine compact blue 



1 Paper read at the Seventh International Zoological Congress, held in Boston, 

 August, 1907. 



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