MAN IN THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 683 



the remnant of a cone of dejection brought down from the 

 adjoining loess terrace when the Missouri River was flowing 

 on the opposite side of the trough, two miles distant. Some 

 remarkable facts are given by him of the rapid growth of 

 such cones in the Missouri Valley opposite Nebraska City, 

 since the occupation of the country by whites. But the fact, 

 just stated concerning the slight northward dip of the strati- 

 fication noted by Dr. Upham, and the extent to which the 

 remnant of the deposit runs up the ridge back of the house to- 

 wards the main terrace would seem to render Professor Todd's 

 theory incredible. 



As to the skeleton itself, it so much resembles that of some 

 modern American Indians, that the Americanists who exam- 

 ined it at the International Meeting in New York, in the 

 autumn of 1902, and later Professor Holmes and Mr. Hrdlicka 

 think it incredible that it can be of glacial age. Their opinion, 

 however, is largely discounted by the fact that greatly exag- 

 gerated ideas of the antiquity of the glacial epoch are enter- 

 tained by most of these experts. When the evidence is made 

 to show that the date of the Iowan glacial episode did not 

 close until about the time that the civilization of Egypt, 

 Babylonia and Western Turkestan had attained a high degree 

 of development, and that the cranial capacity had at that 

 time in those regions reached that of the higher races of the 

 present time, there would seem to be little dependence to be 

 put upon a priori dicta adverse to the glacial age of the Lansing 

 skull. 



The remains of the Nebraska Loess-Man were discovered 

 in the summer of 1906, by Mr. Robert F. Gilder, who soon 

 after called in Mr. E. H. Barbour, Professor of Geology in 

 the University of Nebraska to make more extended investi- 

 gations and give an expert opinion as to the age of the deposit. 



The locality of this discovery is in the township of Florence 

 on the western loess bluffs of the Missouri River a few mites 

 above Omaha. Herefrom ten to twenty feet of glacial drift rest- 



