68 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1894. 



examined the Plistocene sands of that locality. At the west side of 

 the town is an ahandoued sand qnarry, and on the east side is a simi- 

 lar quarry, from which the town derives its supply of building sand. 

 We obtained from a saloon a number of fossils which were said to 

 have l)eeu found several years previously in the west-side quarry. 

 These consist of an almost entire mandibular arch of an adult Ele- 

 phas primigenius with both molars in place, with several bones of 

 probably the same animal ; together with the muzzle and parts of 

 both horns of a large bison, which differs considerably from B. 

 Idtifrons, and to which I have given the name of Bos ermnpianus. 

 It is figured and described in the Journal of the Academy, Vol. IX, 

 Part 4. I also obtained from Mr. Wheeler, owner of the east-side 

 quarry, an entire posterior molar of Elephas priniigeniiix of the coarse 

 plated variety, which was taken from his pit. 



Hearing of remains of the Mammoth in possession of some one 

 near to Hennessy in Central Oklahoma, we took rail for that i)lace. On 

 arriving, we found that the fragments wei'e in possession of a rancher 

 eight miles west of that town. We visited the ranch, and found that 

 the fragments were much broken, and included the four molar teeth 

 of an adult Elephas priviigenius of the coarse plated variety. The 

 rancher, Mr. Painter, had in his possession a number of teeth and 

 some bones of the limbs of a saber-tooth tiger, which he liad found 

 with tliose of the mammoth. Both its bones and those of the mam- 

 moth were stained red by the coloring iron of the Permian clay, 

 and were covered by a thin layer of it. The animals had been in 

 some way buried in this material during the Plistocene epoch. I 

 have desci'ibed the cat under tlie name of Dlnobasth serns. in the 

 Journal of the Academy, Vol. IX, Part 4, as it represented both a 

 species and genus new to science. 



On our return northward we stopped a few days at Galena, Mis- 

 souri, and visited the Marble cave eighteen miles east of that place, 

 under the guidance of the proprieter, Mr. Truman Powell. I wish 

 here to express the obligation under which Mr. Powell placed me 

 through liis hospitality and general assistance. 



