1873.] } 257 [Winslow. 
January 1, 1873. 
The President in the chair. Twenty persons present. 
Capt. C. M. Scammon, U. S. Rev. Marine, was elected a 
Corresponding Member. 
Messrs. George B. Shattuck, M.D., Thomas P. James, All- 
ston G. Bouvé, Henry L. Moody, James Dwight and E. Preb- 
ble Motley were elected Resident Members. 
The President read extracts from a letter from Dr. C. F. 
Winslow relating the discovery of human remains in Table 
Mountain, Cal. 
In 1856 I madea communication tothe Society in relation to human 
remains found at the depth of many feet below the surface of Table 
Mountain in California. Within three: years Prof. Whitney has 
called the attention of the scientific world to other remains found in 
placer drift at a great depth beneath the surface of that mountain. 
The depth at which the first were found was, if I remember cor- 
rectly, one hundred and eighty feet. Those described by Prof. Whit- 
ney were found at one hundred and thirty feet, and some distrust as 
to their identity has been entertained in certain scientific quarters. 
The verification of such discoveries is all important to the interests 
of science, and I take great pleasure in communicating another 
fact to the Society of the same character; and in order that the 
record may in this instance be placed beyond dispute, I have re- 
quested my informant to substantiate his statement made to me in 
due legal form before a notary public. . 
During my visit to this mining camp I have become acquainted 
with Capt. David B. Akey, formerly commanding officer of a Califor- 
nia volunteer company, and well known to many persons of note in 
that State, and in the course of my conversation with him I learn 
that in 1855 and 1856 he was.engaged with other miners in running 
drifts into Table Mountain at the depth of about two hundred feet 
from its brow, in search of placer gold. He states that in a tunnel 
run into the mountain at the distance of about fifty feet from that 
upon which he was employed, and at the same level, a complete hu- 
man skeleton was found and taken out by miners personally known to 
him, but whose names he does not now recollect. He did not see the 
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