ea of experi- apparent displacement of the pendulum. The bob used seum of Natural History, was the antiquity of man. mentally proving the diurnal movement of the earth. was not that of Foucault, but that of the pendulum One of the exhibits was the “Lansing Man,” consisting He reasoned that as the… … pi demonstrated by means of a very sim- fauna, well represented in the late Pleistocene deposits of Kansas, which ple apparatus. A small pendulum is THE SKULL OF THE “LANSING MAN.” include extinct species of the horse, bi- mounted in a frame of wood, supported Variously estimated at from 8,000 to…
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