1898] Lambe — On the Remains of Mammoth, Etc. 137 



the Yukon River, Alaska, forty miles below the mouth of the 

 Tanana River ; collected previous to 1886. and forming part of 

 the Mercier* collection acquired by the Survey in 1886. 



3. A molar from St. Catharines, Ont., purchased for the 

 museum by Mr. Whiteaves in 1887 ; this specimen was found 

 whilst an excavation was being made for a sewer under the 

 Opera House on Queen Street. 



4. A molar from near Nulato, on the Yukon River, Alaska, 

 presented in 1894 by Mr. C. Constantine, North-west Mounted 

 Police. 



5. Part of a tooth from the drift about six miles above 

 Edmonton. Alberta, and presented by Mr. James Gibbons of 

 Edmonton, in 1895. 



6. A cast of a molar, the original of which is in the Pro- 

 vincial Museum, Victoria, B.C. and is said to be from the shore 

 of Shuswap Lake, B.C. ; received for the museum in 1895. 



On behalf of the department the writer visited Muirkirk, 

 Ont., in September last, and purchased the remains of a mam- 

 moth (presumably EkpJias pi'iinigenius, Blumenbach) found there 

 by a farmer named Charles Fletcher on his farm about a mile 

 and a half north-east of the village. The bones were discovered 

 about three years ago in a field that had a short time previously 

 been burnt over and was being ploughed for the first time. A 

 surface layer of peat from two to three feet in depth had been 

 removed by the fire, leaving exposed a brownish-gray clay hold- 

 ing small pebbles, known as the Erie jclay that in this region 

 has an extensive development. The bones were found just be- 

 neath the surface, lying horizontally, partly embedded in the clay 

 and scattered over an area of about two rods square. The 

 ploughshare first struck and broke in two one of the tusks that 

 proved to be eight feet and a half long, a second tusk ten feet in 

 length was found near the other, and in the immediate vicinity 

 the following remains were unearthed — nearly all the limb-bones, 

 an almost complete lower jaw with teeth in place, portions of the 

 upper jaw with the teeth, fragments of the upper pirt of the 

 cranium, some of the ribs, the remains of a few vertebrae and a 

 number of the bones of the feet. The two hind legs are almost 

 entire, some of the bones of the feet only being wanting. 



* Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1894. vol. i., p. i, 

 " Notes on the occurrence of mammoth-remains in the Yukon District of Canada and 

 in Alaska," by Geors;e .\I. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



t Vide Geology of Canada for 1863, p. 896. 



