DISCOVERIES ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY MAN 27 
bones in the section lie then called Mr. Weills, and together they removed the 
bones. The parts of the skeleton obtained include the right and loft femur, 
lacking the extremities; right patella; left tibia and fragments of the right; 
right fibula; right calcaneum ; right and left astragalus; left navicular ; ex 
ternal cuneiform of the right foot ; right metatarsals one to four ; left metatar- 
sals three to five ; a part of the shaft of the left humerus ; right os magnum ; 
three metacarpals; and three phalanges. All of these bones pertain appar 
ently to the same specimen, representing a small individual. From the lower 
margin of the lesser tuberosity to the upper margin of the inner condylar notch, 
the femur measures 29 cm., the corresponding measurement on the femur of a 
large modern adult being as much as 32 cm. The extremities of the larger 
limb bones of this skeleton are but poorly preserved, a condition common to 
many of the bones in this sand, although the bones found in muck in this bed 
are as a rule more nearly complete. 
The section of the bank at the place where these human bones were found 
is as follows : 
Foot. Inches. 
Sandy hard marl rock 1 3 
Sand stained brown by organic matter 3 9 
Marine shell marl to water level in the canal ~&amp;gt; 9 
The marl rock and the brown sand beneath represent stratum No. 2 of the 
general section (text figure 2), the alluvial bed, No. 3 of the section, being 
absent at this place. The human remains were imbedded in the brown sand 
about 3 feet from the base or 2 feet from the ground surface as it existed 
previous to the construction of the canal. 
That the sands in which the human remains are found represent a con 
tinuation of the stratum holding the other vertebrate fossils there can be no 
question, as the section is continuous along the canal bank and the deposits 
identical in appearance. Elephas columbi, Equus leidyi, and other extinct 
species are found at an equal or higher level in the beds on either side of the 
human remains. From the marl rock which lies at the top of the section the 
writer obtained, within 6 feet of the place where the human skeleton lay, a 
premolar tooth of a fox, representing not the common gray fox of that region, 
but either an extinct species or possibly the red fox, Vulpcs pennsylvanicns, 
which at present is not known in Florida. In immediate association with the 
human bones were the scapula and astragalus of a deer, which is also found 
elsewhere in the sand, being one of the common fossils of the bone bed. In 
addition a hyoid bone of the sloth, Megalonyx jcffersonii, and pieces of the 
teeth of the mastodon, Mammut americanum, have been collected from the 
canal bank at the place w T here the human bones were found. 
Second skeleton. 
[Pp. 140-142.] In February, 1916, Mr. Ayers obtained a human right ulna 
which, although not found in place, was recognized as having been derived from 
the bank, since the degree of mineralization was similar to that of the asso 
ciated vertebrate fossils. The skeleton from which this bone came, however, 
was not located at that time. Again, in April, 1916, Mr. Ayers found the 
distal end of a humerus, \vhich, although not in place, had recently fallen 
from the bank. The discovery of this bone led to the location in the bank of 
ether bones belonging to the same skeleton to which belongs also the ulna 
found three months earlier. The place of these bones in the section may be 
seen from the photograph Fpl. 6, fig. 11, which shows the left ulna, femur, 
and radius as they lay in the bank. All of these bones were at the base of 
