THE &quot; FOSSIL &quot; MAN OF VERO, FLORIDA 
PRELIMINARY REMARKS 
The discovery of &quot; fossil human remains &quot; at Yero, on the eastern 
coast of Florida, was recently announced by Dr. E. H. Sellards, State 
Geologist. 1 In the early part of October a more extended report on 
these finds, by the same author, appeared, 2 and other communications 
on the subject were sent to scientific journals. 3 Meanwhile, generous 
invitations to visit Vero were extended by Dr. Sellards to a num 
ber of scientific men interested in the subject, as a result of which the 
last few days of October found his camp at Vero filled to capacity. 
The party included, besides Dr. Sellards and Mr. H. Gunter, his 
assistant, Dr. Rollin C. Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago, 
and Dr. T. Wayland Yau-ghan, of the United States Geological Sur 
vey, geologists; Dr. O. F. Hay, of the Carnegie Institution of Wash 
ington, vertebrate paleontologist ; Prof. George Grant MacCurdy, of 
the Peabody Museum, Yale University, archeologist and anthro 
pologist ; and the writer. A stay of two to five days was made by the 
several members of the party, and, notwithstanding insects, rain, and 
finally a partial flood, the locality of the finds, together with the 
vicinity, was fairly well examined. (PL 1.) The reports of the mem 
bers of the party on the results of their observations, including a pre 
liminary account of similar nature by the writer, will be found in the 
January-February. 1917, number of The Journal of Geology, and are 
referred to later in this memoir. In this place is presented a more 
complete account of the subject so far as it relates to the human bones. 
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERIES 
The essential features of the history of the discoveries, as given by 
Dr. Sellards in the Eighth Annual Report of the Florida State 
Geological Survey, are given below. The account is preceded by a 
brief summary, which reads as follows: 
[P. 1231 A new and very Important locality for vertebrate, invertebrate, and 
plant fossils was found in 1913 at Vero on the Atlantic coast in central-eastern 
1 Sellards, E. H., On the Discovery of Fossil Human Remains in Florida in Association 
with Extinct Vertebrates, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 4, XLII, pp. 1-18, 1016. 
2 Human Remains and Associated Fossils from the Pleistocene of Florida. Eighth Ann. 
Rep. Fla. State Geol. Surv., 1916, pp. 121-160. 
3 Human Remains from the Pleistocene of Florida, Science, n. s. vol. XLIV, pp. 615-617, 
New York, Oct. 27, 1916. 
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