IS /:'. //. S, /lards — Discovery of Fossil Human Remain*. 



fcary to this valley originate only a few miles inland, and the 

 valley in recent limes has been occupied merely by a small 

 sluggish clear-water stream, the aggrading of the stream valley 

 must have progressed very slowly. The fact that the fresh- 

 water marl which overlies the alluvial bed amounts in places 

 to as much as two feet in thickness is further evidence of the 

 considerable length of time that has elapsed since this deposit 

 was accumulated. 



The mammalian fauna contained in the older stratum holding 

 human remains at Vero, ISTo. 2 of the section, makes it certain 

 that this bed was deposited during the Pleistocene period. That 

 the overlying bed, ISTo. 3 of the section, is likewise of great 

 antiquity is established by the fact that it contains a number 'of 

 extinct mammalian species, as well as by the fact that the 

 human and other bones which it contains are well mineralized. 

 However, further discussion of the place of this bed in the 

 geologic time scale will be deferred until a more complete 

 determination has been made of the associated fauna and flora. 

 This is the more desirable since the collections from this very 

 important locality are being rapidly increased, thus affording 

 additional data with which to determine the age of the deposits. 



Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee, Fla. 



Akt. II. — A New Cyprinid Fish, Leuciscus rosei, from the 

 Miocene of British Columbia / by L. Hussakof. 



Some time ago Dr. B. Rose, of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, sent me for examination four fossil fishes which he had 

 collected while investigating the geology of the southern part 

 of British Columbia in 1912. The specimens are from a 

 formation known as the Tranquille beds, probably of Miocene 

 age, on Kamloops Lake, B. C* Each specimen consists of a 

 more or less complete fish about 6 inches in length, represented 

 by its skeleton in a layer of stratified light brown tuff. The 

 fishes apparently represent a new species. 



Leuciscus rosei, n. sp. 



Type. — Impression of a complete fish lacking only the lower 

 lobe of the caudal. Total length, 127 rara . In the collection of 



* A brief description of the geology of the region in which the specimens 

 were collected was given by Dr. B. Rose in his paper, " Savona Map-area, 

 British Columbia." Summary Report, Geological Survey Canada, for the 

 Calendar year 1912 (1914), 151-155. 



