Wyman.] 14 [May 20, 



The thanks of the Society were unanimously voted to the 

 retiring Vice-President, Mr. Greenleaf, who had declined re- 

 election. 



The following Resolution, offered by Mr. G. Washington 

 Warren, was unanimously adopted: — 



" That this Society desires to place upon its records its high appre- 

 ciation of the eminent services rendered by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, 

 one of its Vice-Presidents, and of the high honor conferred upon the 

 Society by his long association with it ; and it would respectfully 

 tender to his afflicted family its sincere condolence for the malady 

 which has overtaken him, and has so abruptly terminated — for a 

 season only it is greatly to be hoped — his scientific researches which 

 have been of inestimable value to the public." 



May 20, 1874. 



The President in the Chair. Sixty persons present. 



Prof. Jeffries Wyman read an account of the discovery of 

 human remains in the fresh water shell-heaps of Florida, un- 

 der circumstances which indicate that cannibalism was prac- 

 ticed by the early inhabitants living on the shores of the St. 

 Johns River. 



These remains were found scattered among the shells, and were 

 broken up in the same manner as the bones of edible animals. In 

 several instances considerable portions of the skeleton of a single 

 individual were found, but spread out over a large surface and in a 

 disorderly manner, showing that the bones could not have been de- 

 posited as in an ordinary burial. As there were no marks of teeth 

 these bones could not be supposed to have been broken up, while lying 

 on the surface, by wild animals, as bears and wolves, and subsequently 

 covered over by the accumulation of rubbish. They were, besides, 

 in the different instances broken up in a somewhat similar manner, 

 the upper arm and thigh bones being fractured just below the heads 

 and in the middle. The bones of the fore arm and leg were gener- 



