136 The Ottawa Naturalist. [Oct. and Nov. 



at the beginning of August makes this tree very attractive at 

 that time of year. A variety of this, A. tatariaim Ginnala/\s, 

 far more ornamental. It has deeply cut foliage which in autumn 

 rivals in brillancy that of the red or sugar maples. 



A. Volxenii, Masters. — Caucasus. Planted 1897. One speci- 

 men proved nearly hardy and the other died. This is said to 

 make a fine tree. 



ON THE REMAINS OF MAMMOTH IN THE MUSEUM 

 OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT. 



By Lawrence M. Lambe, F.G.S. 



Previous to 1898 the only remains of the mammoth in the 

 museum of the Survey were as follows : — 



1. The right ramus and symphysis of a lower jaw, a sym- 

 physis, a fragment of a large tusk, part of a smaller tusk, 

 portions of two scapula and several fragments of other bones, 

 found at Burlington Heights near Hamilton, Ont., in 1852, and 

 presented to the museum by Mr. R. Benedict then Chief En- 

 gineer of the Great Western Railway. The lower jaw and the 

 smaller tusk were described by Mr. T. Cottle of Woodstock, Ont., 

 in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 1852, 2nd 

 series, vol. 10, p. 395, and in the American Journal of Science 

 and Arts for 1853, 2nd series, vol. 15, p. 282. The then Palaeon- 

 tologist to the Survey, Mr. E. Billings, mentions the discovery of 

 these bones in the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist for 1857, 

 vol. I, p. 380, and later, in 1863, ^^ ^o^- ^m of the same publica- 

 tion, p. 135, describes them at length and refers them to E/ephas 

 Jacksoni, Briggs and Foster, at the same time remarking that 

 Mr. Cottle " was the first to announce the discovery of mammoth 

 remains in Canada" {i.e., what was then called Upper and Lower 

 Canada). In his communication to the American Journal of 

 Science and Arts, Mr. Cottle refers the bones to Eleplias primi- 

 genius, Blumenbach, with a query. 



2. Three well preserved teeth from Norton Sound, Alaska, 

 and a tooth, tusks, limb-bones with a few ribs and vertebrae from 



