The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIII. No. 10. Albion, N. Y., Oct., 1906. Whole No. 231 



THE OOLOGIST, 



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SIBERIAN MAMMOTH. 



Body of Prehistoric Monster Complete 

 at St. Petersburg — Found Entire in 

 a Grave of Ice. — Animal Was Killed 

 Thousands of Years Ago. 



Actual district in which it was 



found, 67.32 north latitude, 151.33 east 

 longitude. 



Hair, average length, 7 in. 



Wool, yellow under hair, 5 to 10 

 centimetres thick. 



Tail with long hair at the end re- 

 sembling a buffalo's. 



Sex of mammoth, male (young). 



Flesh was treated with arsenic, 

 sewn up in cowhide, and conveyed to 

 St. Petersburg in a frozen state. 



Actual bodies of mammoth pre- 

 viously seen in 1799 and 1846, but nev- 

 er before wholly rescued and pre- 

 served. 



The huge body of a Siberian mam- 

 moth which was discovered in the 

 summer of 1901, has now been erected 

 in the museum of the Academy of 

 Sciences at St. Petersburg. The 

 unique interest o fthis discovery lies 

 in the fact that though many fossil 

 remains of mammoths have been 

 found and other preserved bodies of 

 mammoths seen, no body so complete 

 as this one has ever been brought 

 home to civilization. The hide, hair, 

 eyes, flesh and bones of the mam- 

 moth brought home by Dr. Otto Herz 

 are all marvelously preserved by a 

 set of circumstances similar to those 

 which have given us the actual feath- 

 ers of the extinct moa bird and the 

 bony hide of the mylodon. 



In this case, according to the Lon- 

 don "Sphere," which publishes the 

 first accurate description and photo- 

 graphs of the mammoth, the perish- 

 able flesh has been preserved by 

 means of almost perfect freezing and 

 "cold storing" process. When first 

 seen by the Cossack Jawlowsky, the 

 mammoth was nearly covered with 



