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delphia Academy of Sciences and the other to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, where it still remains, and in 

 whose u Proceedings " (vol. vi, p. 278) Mr. Winslow's original 

 communication may be found. 



Ten years after, Mr. Hubbs more fully detailed the cir- 

 cumstances of the discovery, and Professor Whitney and 

 Gorham Blake, Esq., made special examination of the locality 

 and careful inquiries of the owners of the mine, and satisfied 

 themselves that the bone really came from under the basaltic 

 covering of Table Mountain. Mr. Walton, one of the owners, 

 did not remember anything about the bone, but did remem- 

 ber that a " mortar " had been found in the tunnel, near 

 the same situation. 



In 1870 Mr. Oliver W. Stevens gave to Mr. Yoy a large 

 stone bowl, which was incrusted with sulphuret of iron, and 

 which he makes affidavit that he picked with his own hands, 

 in 1853, from a load of dirt which came from a tunnel under 

 Table Mountain, two hundred feet in, at Shaw's Flat. 



Mr. Llewellyn Pierce also makes affidavit that a certain 

 stone mortar which he gave to Mr. Voy was taken, in 1862, 

 from under Table Mountain, eighteen hundred feet from the 

 mouth of the tunnel. 



All this is preliminary to the famous Calaveras skull, the 

 facts about which are as follows : 



In February, 1866, Mr. Mattison, one of the owners of 

 a claim on Bald Mountain, near Altaville, says he took from 

 a tunnel under the basaltic capping of the mountain an ob- 

 ject which, on account of incrusted earthy and stony ma- 

 terial, he thought at first to be the petrified root of a tree, 

 but which he discovered to be a portion of a skull. He took 

 it to Mr. Scribner, agent of the express company, who, after 

 seeing the importance of the discovery, passed it over to Dr. 

 William Jones of Murphy's, a physician of extensive practice 

 and scientific tastes. Both these gentlemen were well known 

 to Professor Whitney, and their veracity is vouched for by 

 him. The skull was forwarded by Dr. Jones to the office 

 of the State Survey on the following June (I860). Mr. Mat- 



