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b. In 1891 Prof. F. M. Witter, of Muscatine, Iowa, reported that two flint 
arrow points had been discovered in the loess at Muscatine, at depths of 12 and 
25 feet. 
c. In the same communication Professor Witter stated that he had himself 
found flint chips in a gravel bed on Mad Creek, near Muscatine, at a depth of 10 
feet from the surface.The gravel bed was overlain by loess and near-by in the 
gravel had been found a tooth of an elephant. 
d. In 1900 Dr. J. A. Udden published a statement which had been made to 
him about the finding of a stone ax at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in loess at a depth 
of 35 feet. 
e. In 1903, Dr. C. A. Peterson, of St. Louis, announced that a stone ax 
had been found near St. Louis at the bottom of the loess, at a depth of 14 feet. 
/. In 1902 Dr. S. W. Williston reported that Messrs. Overton and Martin 
had found, in Kansas, a flint arrow head underneath the shoulder blade of a 
fossil bison, at a depth of 20 feet from the surface. The animal belonged to 
the species Bison occidentalis. Its remains have been frequently found, but 
never in deposits overlying the Wisconsin drift. 
In all probability man had his origin in southern Asia. From 
this region, and not from Europe, were peopled the other continents 
and the islands of the seas. A people as advanced as many Ameri¬ 
can Indians may have reached America long before the Cro-Mag¬ 
nons had been able to dispossess the fierce Heidelbergers and the 
Neanderthalers who had preoccupied Europe. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 
PLATE 3. 
Fig. 1. Chelydra sculpta Hay. View from above, X%. 
Seven bones of the carapace of one individual found together. 
Figs. 2, 3. Tayassu lenis Leidy. X 2. 
2. Upper left hindermost molar. View of grinding surface. 
3. Upper left canine, showing the outer face. 
Fig. 4. Odocoileus sellardsiae Hay. X 4-5. 
Fifth cervical vertebra, showing the front end. X 4-5. 
Fig. 5. Odocoileus hemionus Rafinesque. 
Fifth cervical vertebra, presenting the front end. 
Fig. 6. Odocoileus sellardsiae. Third lumbar vertebra. 
