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bears. Everything of value was now collected, including 

 more than thirty pounds of fur ; the tusks were repur- 

 chased, and the whole was transported to St. Petersburg, 

 where the mounted skeleton at present stands, in the Im- 

 perial Museum, the skin still remaining attached to the 

 head and feet. This individual was nine feet his^h and 

 sixteen feet long, exclusive of the tusks. Some portions 

 of the skin and hair were sent by Mr. Adams to Sir 

 Joseph Banks, and they may now be seen in the Museum 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London. 



Other discoveries have been made more recently. In 

 1843 a mammoth was found bv Middendorf, a Russian 

 naturalist, on the Tas, between the Obi and the Yenesei, 

 in latitude 66 30', in so perfect a state that the bulb of 

 the eye is still preserved in the museum at Moscow. 

 Another carcass, together with a smaller individual, was 

 discovered the same year, imbedded in clay and sand, near 

 the river Taimyr, as far north as latitude 75 15'. 



These sources of information have been fully utilized 

 in the restoration of which a view is given above. This 

 Stuttgart-Rochester restoration mav therefore be resfarded 

 as embodying, for scientific and popular inspection, all 

 that has been learned in a hundred years, and recorded 

 in a hundred volumes, concerning the external aspect of 

 the primeval mammoth or his American relative. 



It is the extinct Siberian elephant which has given us 

 the word "mammoth." It comes from the Russian mam- 

 ant, a name applied by the native tribes to a huge beast 

 supposed to burrow underground, and to perish whenever 

 by chance it becomes exposed to the light. Some, how- 

 ever, think it is derived from the Hebrew heJiemoth. 



It is impossible to refrain from speculating on the 



