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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt:...anew to minute examination by Lehmann-Nitsche and Leboucq, of Gand. The results of these studies are that, while the i Layer No. 8 of fig. 44. » No details are given as to the position of the skull, though such data would be, it seems, of much importance, and, curiously, no mention of this first find is made in the lengthy report on that of 1873 (La antigiiedad, ete., n, 1881, p. 483 et seq.). » Lehmann-Nitsche, R., Nouvelles recherches, ete., pp. 213-250. An erroneous statement Is found on p. 215 and again on p. 244 of the Nouvelles recherches, ete. The text reads that the bones were found more than 2 meters below the level of the water in the arroyo; this does not correspond to any statement by Ameghino. majority of the larger bones were found to belong to the skeleton of an old female, one of them, with some of the hand bones and foot bones, belonged probably to a second subject, of taller stature. The fragment of an iliac bone presents certain sexual and other peculiarities, but nothing on which any conclusions would be based. As to the vertebrae, Lehmann-Nitsche "was not able to discover any osteologic characteristic which might not be found in the vertebrae of contemporaneous man" (p. 241); and Leboucq makes almost the same statement in regard to the bones of the hand and the foot (p. 249): "The prehistoric bones of the hand and the foot collected at the Arroyo de Frias present no marked morphologic peculiarity which differentiates them from modern bones." The scaphoid, which Broca pronounced very small, presents really, according to Leboucq (p. 249), medium adult dimensions. The length of the second metatarsal surpasses the average length of the same bone in females and (slightly) even that in males. One of the metacarpa...