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of man in America in the Glacial period. While some parts of 
the formerly supposed evidences have been shown to be er- 
roneous, many other observations seem to me to admit only 
the conclusion that man was here before the end of the Ice age, 
and, if so, doubtless through a long preceding time. 
One of the earliest observers in this country to record traces 
of Glacial man, by flakes from the manufacture of quartz im- 
plements, was Winchell, in 1877, at Little Falls. Minnesota. 
Through twenty-five years from that date, b<?ing busy with 
other geologic work in the survey of this state, he was not a 
participant in the further investigations concerning this sub- 
ject. Having been silent during the very animated discussions 
of the past decade, he now comes to the careful consideration 
of the Lansing discovery which he has presented in foregoing 
pages, and in his earlier address as president of the Geological 
Society of America, with no trammels of previous partizan- 
ship. To my mind, after much study of this new discovery, 
the evidence of man here in the late lowan stage of glaciation, 
as so well reviewed by Winchell, seems entirely conclusive. 
Ethnology likewise declares, as voiced by Powell in a pro- 
foundly philosophic paper in The Forum of February, 1898, 
that man came to America very long ago, and that he has since 
developed the many and diverse languages, handicrafts, leg- 
ends and myths, and the physical peculiarities, of the American 
race. How long ago that migration took place, permitting 
the racial development of these people, called the American 
Indians, to begin, we cannot tell definitely, or even approxi- 
mately, in terms of years. We can only say that before our 
continental ice-sheet passed its lowan stage, the American 
or red race appears, as shown by the Lansing skeleton, to have 
progressed far in its differentiation from the white, yellow, 
and black races. . w. u. 
