MAMMOTHS AND MASTODONS. 237 



But this may be all a pure fabrication, in conception 

 as well as in construction, like the "Trojan Horse," or 

 the bronze statue of Bavaria at Munich, whose hollow 

 head will receive six men and women at once. What 

 evidence have we that such a beast ever lived? Aye, 

 there's the important point. Now, I have examined this 

 question. I have some personal knowledge, alid I have 

 received some reliable testimony. First let me give a 

 little history of this Wardian mammoth. 



This specimen was manufactured in Professor Ward's 

 establishment, itself a worthy object of national pride, 

 since no equal establishment of the kind exists in the 

 world. But it was modeled after an original restoration 

 purchased at Stuttgart. The original was made b}" the 

 distinguished preparator L. Martin, who worked under 

 the direction and advice of Dr. Oscar Fraas, the celebrated 

 geologist and comparative anatomist of Stuttgart. The 

 Royal Museum at Stuttgart is one of the richest in the 

 world, and in certain departments it surpasses all. Here 

 had been preserved for some years various bones of the 

 extinct elephant which once roamed over Europe. Here 

 was a thio^h-bone and there a vertebra; here a tooth and 

 there a portion of a skull; here a tusk and there an ulna 

 or a metacarpal. I well remember how these numerous 

 huge bro^n relics of an extinct world commanded my 

 attention when formerly making a study of this museum. 

 Now, every bone sustains a certain relation to the entire 

 bulk of the animal to which it belonged. Indeed, so great 

 is the uniformity of correlations of parts that we safely 

 affirm that if one elephantine bone was twice the bulk 

 of another of the same name, the animal which used it 

 was twice the bulk of the other, exactly as the Greek 



