2 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT 
Berry’s paper fails to indicate that in addition to a description of 
the fossil plants, he has placed on record observations relating to 
the place of the human relics in the deposits. 
In the introductory paragraph of his “Critical Observations” 
Dr. Hrdlicka states that everjrthing relating to human occupancy 
had been removed before anthropologists had an opportunity of 
visiting the locality. This is not in accordance with the facts, for, 
as everyone knows who has informed himself about the problem, 
the human artifacts have not all been removed, and anyone who is" 
interested may yet see objects of human workmanship in place in 
this formation. Dr. Hrdlicka maintains that he has detected dis¬ 
crepancies in some of the writer’s statements in regard to the meas¬ 
ured thickness of parts of the section. Fortunately the problem 
does not rest on the writer’s statements or observations alone, but 
on the observations of others as well. The student who is inter¬ 
ested in the question of the age of the human remains found at this 
locality will do himself an injustice if he accepts this memoir by 
Dr. Hrdlicka as a fair presentation of the subject. Rather it will 
be necessary to consult the literature as a whole, and for the con¬ 
venience of any who may be interested there are here included ref¬ 
erences to all the publications, so far as the writer is aware, that 
have appeared relating to the Vero deposits. The evidence both 
for and against the Pleistocene age of the human remains and arti¬ 
facts has been fully stated in these papers. In the judgment of the 
writer it can not be successfully denied that at this locality there 
are found relics of human workmanship and human bones in as¬ 
sociation with and contemporaneous with a fauna and flora that 
elsewhere and heretofore have been considered Pleistocene. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
On the discovery of fossil human remains in Florida in association with 
extinct vertebrates, by E. H. Sellards, this Journal (American Journal of Sci¬ 
ence). Vol. 42, pp. 1-18, July, 1916. 
Human remains from the Pleistocene of Florida, by E. H. Sellards, Sci¬ 
ence, N. S. Vol. 44, pp. 615-617, October 27, 1916. 
Human remains and associated fossils from the Pleistocene of Florida, by 
E. H. Sellards, Eig'hth Annual Report, Florida Geological Survey, pp. 121-160, 
pis. 15-31; figs. 1-15, October, 1916. 
