Nepheline Syenite in Ontario. — Miller. 185 
A very similar amphibole is described by Dr. Wright from, an 
alkali syenite from Beverly, Mass.* 
Mr. A. G. Burrows found a specimen taken from one of 
the boulders to possess the following percentage composi- 
tion: 
Si0 2 55-64 
AI2O3 19.81 
fFeO 3.90 
CaO 2.86 
MgO 0.95 
K 2 4-6o 
Na 2 8.21 
P2O5 0.103 
Moisture 0.35 
Loss on ignition 3.14 
Total 99 . 563 
Bureau of Mines, Toronto. 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE FOSSIL MAN OF LANSING, KANSAS. 
The last number of the American Anthropologist (for 
April-June, 1903) contains a paper by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of 
the American Museum of Natural History, New York, on 
"The Lansing Skeleton," giving in much detail the characters 
and measurements of the bones, and especially of the skull. 
"The skeleton," writes Dr. Hrdlicka, "is distinctly that of 
a male of about fifty-five years of age. The man was of me- 
dium stature (about 1.65 m.) and of ordinary strength. The 
bones of the lower extremities indicate better development than 
those of the upper, showing greater relative use of" the former. 
Considered anthropologically, all the parts of the skeleton, and 
the skull in particular, approach closely, in every character of 
importance, the average skeleton of the present-day Indian of 
the Central states. Zoologically, as well as in growth, the 
Lansing skeleton and the skeleton of the typical present-day In- 
dian of the upper Mississippi region are of the same degree 
and quality." 
* Tschermak's Mia. Mit., Band xix, Heft. 4. 
t All the Iron is estimated as FeO. 
