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&quot; The analytical results obtained are tabulated below in the order 
of decreasing moisture-)- volatile matter content, and the correspond 
ing increase in total mineral matter.&quot; 
Chemical analysis 
Portion 
. 
of an ulna 
Tart of 
ATr Oni 
taken at 
the right 
tibia of 
&quot;a man 
taken in 
place in 
the Pleis 
tocene 
bed at 
Vero&quot; 
(analysis 
given 
by Dr. 
JNO. o/Ul. 
Sellards; 
bone 
belonging 
to 
Skeleton 
I of 
Vero 
(analysis 
by Dr. 
Wherry, 
U.S. 
N. M.). 
No. 6957, 
Sellards; 
bone 
belonging 
to 
Skeleton 
II, Vero 
(analysis 
by Dr. 
Wherry, 
U.S. 
N. M.). 
random 
from a lot 
of bones 
probably 
post- 
Colum 
bian 
from a 
key in 
Little 
Sarasota 
Bay, 
No. 
227224; 
rib from 
a miner 
alized 
skeleton 
in U. S. 
N, M. 
from 
Osprev, 
Florida. 
(Wherry). 
No. 
292065; 
humerus 
from an 
Indian 
burial on 
Perico 
Island , 
Tampa 
Bay, 
Florida. 
(Wherry). 
Femur 
of fossil 
Canis sp. 
from the 
stream 
bed at 
Vero 
(analysis 
made for 
Dr. 
Sellards). 
Sellards). 
western 
Florida 
(Wherry). 
Specific gravity 
2.84 
2.80 
2. 50 
2. 50 
2. 84 
2. 35 
2. 62 
Moisture at 100 C . . . . 
2.07 
2.95 
3.67 
3.56 
6.88 
6.16 
4.09 
Volatile matter .... 
8.92 
10.27 
16.21 
12. 38 
7 . 77 
17. 73 
8. 22 
Phosphoric acid (P a 5 ) 
32. 27 
36.29 
31.37 
35.08 
34.49 
32.91 
30.88 
Calcium oxide (CaO).. 
46.80 
44.22 
40. 49 
45.01 
29.72 
39. 09 
45.69 
Insoluble matter, 
silica Q tc 
1 11 
3. 61 
Iron and aluminium 
oxides 
3.71 
2.81 
4.04 
. 26 
17. 55 
.37 
1.85 
Magnesium oxide 
N.d. 
. 77 
.85 
. 67 
1. 26 
.72 
N. d. 
Calcium fluoride (CaF 2 ) 
N.d. 
2.38 
2.81 
2.57 
1.95 
2.49 
N.d. 
Total 
97. 72 
99.69 
99. 44 
99. 53 
96.96 
ARTIFACTS 
The artifacts from the Yero deposits comprise, as stated by Dr. 
Sellards, numerous fragments of pottery, of bone implements and 
other objects, of stone implements and rejects. All these objects 
have been studied in detail by Prof. George Grant MacCurdy, whose 
observations are soon to be published in the American A nttiropologist? , 
Thanks to the courtesy of Dr. Sellards, the whole collection has also 
been sent for examination to the United States National Museum, 
where it has been carefully inspected by Prof. W. H. Holmes. 
On the whole the objects indicate a rather advanced stage of 
primitive hunting and fishing culture, comparable with that of the 
Indians of the Southeastern States. The potsherds look remarkably 
1 An excellent detailed report on these, fully corroborating the above expressed fact, 
has recently been published by Dr. MacCurdy (Amer. Anthropologist, April-June, 1917), 
