Note 1664 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Pop. Science Monthly, xxii. 315. Smithsonian Rept., 1874-75. Reports of progress, etc., in the Peabody Museum Reports, nos. x. and xi. (1878, 1879). Prof. N. S. Shaler accompanies the first of these with some comments, in which he says: “If these remains are really those of man, they prove the existence of interglacial man on this part of our shore.” He is understood latterly to have become convinced of their natural character. J. D. Whitney and Lucien Carr agree as to their artificial character (Ibid. xii. 489). Cf. Abbott on Flint Chips (refuse work) in the Peab. Mus. Rept., xii. 506; H. W. Haynes in Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc., Jan., 1881; F. W. Putnam in Peab. Mus. Rept., no. xiv. p. 23; Henry Carvell Lewis on The Trenton gravel and its relation to the antiquity of man (Philad., 1880); also in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1877-1879, pp. 60-73; and 1880, p. 306). Abbott has also registered the discovery of a molar tooth (Peabody Mus. Rept., xvi. 177), and the under jaw of a man (Ibid. xviii. 408, and Matériaux, etc., xviii. 334.) On recent discoveries of human skulls in the Trenton gravels, see Peab. Mus. Rept. xxii. 35. The subject of the Trenton-gravels man, and of his existence in the like gravels in Ohio and Minnesota, was discussed at a meeting of the Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., of which there is a report in their Proceedings, vol. xxiii. These papers have been published separately: Palæolithic man in eastern and central North America (Cambridge, 1888). Contents:—Putnam, F. W. Comparison of palæolithic implements.—Abbott, C. C. The antiquity of man in the valley of the Delaware.—Wright, G. F. The age of the Ohio gravel-beds.—Upham, Warren. The recession of the ice-sheet in Minnesota in its relation to the gravel deposits overlying the quartz implements found by Miss Babbitt at Little Falls, Minn.—Discussion and concluding remarks, by H. W. Haynes, E. S. Morse, F. W. Putnam. Cf. also Amer. Antiquarian, Jan., 1888, p. 46; Th. Belt’s Discovery of stone implements in the glacial drift of No. America (Lond., 1878, and Q. Jour. Sci. xv. 63; Dawkins in No. Am. Rev., Oct., 1883, p. 347.)