An unusually large number of interested auditors was present last evening at the meeting of the Academy of Sciences. The walls of the apartment in which the meeting was held were hung with cloth diagrams of the mammoth footprints unearthed within the walls of the Nevada State Prison.
The footprints, according to reporting from the San Francisco Chronicle, measured 19 inches in length and appeared to be wearing some kind of sandal. Scientists estimated them to be from the Pliocene.
This remarkable event is also mentioned in Nature, A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, published in (1882-83) at Harvard University.
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