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seven inches in length, and Ij inch in diameter, and weighed 13 J 

 pounds. It is placed near the cranium, in the museum. 



The Warren Museum consists of two fire-proof rooms, one of which 

 contains gigantic fossils, and the other, relics which the great anato- 

 mist wished to preserve with more than ordinary care. Among these 

 are the skull, brain, and heart of Spurzheim, the phrenologist and anat- 

 omist, who died in Boston in 1832, and whose monument graces one 

 of the principal avenues of Mount Auburn. 



Spurzheim was a martyr to science, and those who were familiar 

 with his self-forgetful life, and the vicissitudes of his career, could 

 hardly view these relics with unmoistened eyes. The heart is pre- 

 served in a glass jar of alcohol, and the brain in a glass box filled with 

 liquid. The Prussian philosopher died only two months after his ar- 

 rival in Boston, during the delivery of his first course of lectures. He 

 gave his body to science, to which, from boyhood^ he had devoted all 

 the energies of his soul. 



The most remarkable object in the Warren Museum is the largest 

 skeleton of the 3Iastodon giganteus ever discovered on the continent. 

 By its side, in way of contrast, is the frame of the elephant Pizarro, 

 the largest ever brought to this country. The skeleton of the Masto- 

 don giganteus will not fail to cause the visitor to start back in awe, 

 and he will be hardly able to suppress that adjective of fools, "Impos- 

 sible ! " It is tAvelve feet high, and thirty-four feet in length, from the 

 tips of the tusks to the extremity of its tail. Its trunk is seventeen 

 feet in length. The animal must have weighed more than 20,000 

 pounds ! 



Dr. Warren, in his magnificent and very costly work on the Mas- 

 todon giganteus^ copies of which are only to be found in the rarest 

 libraries, has given us an account of all that is known of this animal, 

 and a very interesting description of the finding of this particular 

 specimen, of which we make an abridgment: 



At a very early period after the settlement of this country, rel- 

 ics of the mastodon were found in the vicinity of the Hudson River. 

 Among these were a tooth, which is described by Dr. Cotton Mather, 

 of Boston, as weighing more than four pounds, and a thigh-bone, said 

 to have been more than seventeen feet long. 



As the country became settled, mastodon-bones, in greater or less 

 numbers, were found scattered over a large part of the territory of the 

 United States, but chiefly near the Hudson, in the salt-licks of Ken- 

 tucky, in the Carolinas, in Mississippi and Arkansas. They have re- 

 cently been found in California and Oregon. 



The Hudson River country, between IS^ew York and Albany, 

 seems to have been a favorite resort of the mastodon race. The lands 

 here were fertile, undulating, and well wooded, and the valleys con- 

 tained lacustrine deposits, favorable to the growth of such trees and 

 shrubs as would be likely to afibrd this animal subsistence. 



