Having seen the statement in one of the newspapers that this skull was not genuine, but a joke played on Professor Whitney, I wrote to Professor W. Denton of Wellesley, Masschussetts, on 19th March 1875, inquiring about it. A few days later I received from him the statement that he had visited the place where the skull was found; that certain persons assured him that Professor Whitney had been the victim of a joke. Yet these persons had never seen the skull, and were prejudiced against Professor Whitney. The persons who were best informed had every reason to believe the statements made by Professor Whitney were true. The skull is a very remarkable one, and stands alone for the enormous size of the orbits, and I have good reasons to believe it to have been found as stated. [57] "Several geologists are convinced, from direct evidence, that glacial periods occurred during the miocene and eocene formations, not to mention still more ancient formations."--Darwin's _Origin of Species_, p. 343. [58] "Pre-Historic Times," p. 421; Buchner, 32. [59] "Pre-Historic Times," p. 422. [60] Buchner, p. 32. [61] "American Phrenological Journal," Feb. 1874. [62] Buchner, p. 274. [63] "Our Planet," p. 266. [64] "Science Record," 1874, p. 499. [65] "Pre-Historic Times," p. 315. [66] "Origin of Civilization," p. 121. [67] Figuier's "Primitive Man," p. 116. [68] Buchner, p. 248. [69] Buchner, p. 247; "Keller's Lake-Dwellings." [70] "Lake-Dwellings," pp. 37, 334, 350, 360. [71] "Lake-Dwellings," p. 394. [72] "Lake-Dwellings," p. 396. [73] "Primitive Man," p. 219. [74] "Primitive Man," p. 293. [75] "Pre-Historic Times," p. 76. [76] "Primitive Man," p. 200. [77] "Lake Dwellings," p. 319. [78] "Pre-Historic Times," p. 218; "Primitive Man," p. 281. [79] "Lake-Dwellings," p. 400. [80] "Science Record," p. 564. 1875. [81] "American Phrenological Journal," February, 1874. [82] Wilson's "Pre-Historic Man," p. 40. [83] "Pre-Historic Man," p. 46. [84] "Antiquity of Man," p. 200; "Principles of Geology," vol. i. p. 454. [85] "Antiquity of Man," p. 43; "Pre-Historic Man," p. 47. [86] "Antiquity of Man," p. 44. [87] "Primitive Man," pp. 9, 77. [88] "Pre-Historic Man," p. 236. [89] "Ancient Monuments," p. 304. [90] Buchner, p. 35. [91] Rollin, vol. i. p. 138. [92] Anthon's Classical Dictionary, p. 788. [93] Buchner, 254. [94] "New York Tribune", June 6, 1874. [95] Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 189. [96] "Principles of Geology," vol. i. p. 432. [97] "Antiquity of Man," p. 36. [98] Bayard Taylor in "New York Tribune, Extra," No. 15. [99] "Pre-Historic Nations," p. 190. [100] _Ibid._ pp. 178, 175. [101] "Pre-Historic Nations," p. 37. [102] "Ancient America," p. 187. [103] "Chips from a German Workshop," vol. i. p. 21. [104] _Ibid._ vol. ii. p. 8. [105] Wake's "Chapters on Man," p. 33.