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together with the distal end of a nietapodial of a camel, was found by 

 Doctor Francis in December, 1919, at Keeran Point, the eastern 

 extremity of Victoria County. This locality is on Lavaca Bay, 

 itself a prolongation northward of Matagorda Bay. In September 

 there had been a violent storm in the Gulf, and the waves caused an 

 enormous mass of the bluff to fall. Two farmers of the vicinity, 

 L. Meyer and Edward Machac, gathered up some mastodon and 

 elephant bones and teeth; and these they presented to the Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College, at College Station. Later Doctor 

 Francis visited the locality and picked up some camel remains. He 

 informs the writer that the black surface soil is from 2 to 6 feet thick 

 and barren of fossils. Below this is a cream-colored sand varying 

 from 2 to 4 feet in thickness. In this were buried the bones. The 

 writer is informed that the elevation of the surface there is about 20 

 feet. These facts appear to show that that bed of sand was laid 

 down when camels were living there, and that was about the first 

 third of the Pleistocene. The vertebra indicates a large animal, the 

 length of the centrum being 145 mm.; in the dromedary, 160 mm. 

 Most of the neural arch and the zygapophyses are broken off; also 

 the right transverse process and some of the left. Three views of it 

 are presented (pi. 122, figs. 1-3). Figure 1 shows the bone as seen 

 from below; figure 2, from the right; figure 3, from in front. In the 

 midline there is, in place of the conspicuous sharp ridge seen in the 

 existing camels, a hardly perceptible elevation of the bone. The 

 transverse processes at the anterior end of the vertebra are broken 

 off, but they were evidently thicker and stronger than in the existing 

 camels, and projected downward, outward, and forward, evidently 

 somewhat beyond the end of the centrum. From the base of each 

 process arise two ridges which pass backward. Of these the upper 

 one expands into a broad wing and continues to the rear of the cen- 

 trum. The lower one, prominent on the middle third of the lower 

 face of the centrum, soon subsides and disappears on the hinder third. 

 Where widest the bone must have had a breadth of about 140 mm. 

 In the dromedary it is only 95 mm. The appearance of the lower 

 face of this vertebra is very different from that of the dromedary. 



The distal end of the metapodial resembles closely that of Camelops 

 huerfanensis. The width across the articular end is 89 mm., almost 

 exactly that of the metapodial of the species last mentioned; and to 

 it the specimens are provisionally referred. 



With these camel remains there were found jaws, teeth, and tusks 

 of a very large specimen of Elephas columbi, and a tooth of a species 

 of a bunolophodont mastodon. 



From Pittbridge, Brazos County, Doctor Francis has sent the writer 

 an upper right hindermost molar and the distal end of a hinder 

 cannon bone which were picked up along Brazos River. The tooth 





