Title: Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
Identifier: bulletinofsouthe11sout (find matches)
Year: 1902-1971 (1900s)
Authors: Southern California Academy of Sciences
Subjects: Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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in broken fragments of leaves, twigs, limbs and trunks of trees as well as of seeds and cones. These all appear as debris and nothing is in situ. The larger amount of the material seems to be that of live-oak, cedar and pine. The species of which have not been worked out. These bones and vegetable remains have been thrown together in such confusion as to render the removal of them very tedious and difficult. The bones are so mingled that two consecutive ones are rarely found together. But sloth and tiger, mastodon and wolf, bird and beast, in fact some part of mine than twenty animals may be found in a few cubic feet of space. To remove these, requires very little use of pick and shovel, but a great deal of painstaking labor with small tools, such as a garden trowel, flat file or a crooked wire. In this way often much less than a. spoonful of the tarry matrix is removed at one time. Then too, while attempting to lift a certain desirable bone, a dozen others
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Figure 3. crossing it in one direction and another, (Figures :;. 4) must first be most carefully taken away. This is very trying on one's patience, for it is not uncommon to begin in the morning on a certain bone and by night be, apparently farther away from it. On one occasion a. member of the Board of Education came from the city to witness the digging, and decided to see a certain camel bone, plainly in sight, taken out. The digging for this bone began at 9 a. m. and it was exactly 2:30 p. m. when the coveted prize was placed in his hands. •>.)

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