[127] Transactions of St. Louis Academy of Sciences, vol. i, 1857.
[128] Foster’s Pre-Historic Races, p. 62.
[129] Smithsonian Report, 1872, p. 396, in a note to his article on North American Stone Implements.
[130] J. D. Dana in American Journal of Science and Arts, May, 1875, p. 340.
[131] Article cited, p. 344.
[132] Though the above argument by so eminent a specialist must satisfy any one that Dr. Koch’s claim, as it now stands, is valueless to science; still, it is due to the memory of the latter, to admit that he was the most indefatigable and successful collector in his department in this country. Though unscientific himself, his service to science must ever be recognized. The great Mastodon in the British Museum is a monument to his persevering research. Perhaps the disposition to acknowledge his services, has unduly biased the judgment of many in favor of his groundless claim.
[133] Pre-Historic Races, p. 67.
[134] “But it is one of those isolated cases which require further investigation before full credence can be attached to it.”—Foster’s Pre-Historic Races, p. 71.
[135] Antiquity of Man in the United States, Transactions of American Association for Advancement of Science. Chicago, 1869.
[136] Second Visit to the United States.