THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
VoL. XXX. October, 1896. 358 
FRESH RELICS OF GLACIAL MAN AT THE BUFFALO 
MEETING OF THE A. A. A. S. 
By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 
1. The first paper upon this subject was presented by Prof. 
G. Frederick Wright, detailing briefly the results of a single 
day’s exploration at Trenton, N. J., under the guidance of Mr. 
Ernest Volk, who is continuously carrying on similar explora- 
tions under Prof. F. W. Putnam for the Peabody Museum at 
Cambridge and the Central Park Museum, New York City. 
Professor Wright was requested to select his own ground upon 
the Lalor farm, where permission has been given for explora- 
tion, and the surface to a depth of three feet would be dug 
over in his presence. The point selected is on the bluff of the 
terrace of glacial gravel upon which the city of Trenton is 
built, a mile or more south of the center of the city. The bluff 
here facing the river is about fifty feet above it, and the ter- 
race stretches back in a dead level for a mileand a half. The 
situation is such that there was no chance for surface wash to 
have remodified the deposit. In the near vicinity were bould- 
ers two or three feet in diameter resting upon the surface, or 
slightly below it, showing the ordinary conditions of deposi- 
tion in connection with floating ice which characterized the 
whole delta terrace at Trenton, and which have been so often 
described by the geologists who have visited the region. 
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