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ribs, stumps of the scapnlaj, one femur, one humerus, the lower segments of the 

 hind legs, the main part of the sternum and a few feet bones. After the original 

 purchaser had tried the show business for a time, said remains were secured for 

 Earlham College. 



Some eight years later a Mr. Bookout, near Losantville, Eandolph County, 

 while ditching to drain a small bog abounding in peat, struck the major part of 

 an entire skeleton, which almost exactly matched, for size, the New Paris rem- 

 nant. While the head was of extraordinary size, the tusks were but moderate. 

 The pelvis was six feet, two inches across and ample in every direction. This was 

 most likely a female. In prying at the larger parts, the head and pelvis, to re- 

 move them from the mud they parted, each into a number of pieces. These, on 

 drying for years, would of course crumble at the broken edges. These massive 

 fragments of head and pelvis were sent to Ward & Co., of Rochester, New York, 

 who arranged them in original position, and so welded them by tilling in the gaps 

 that only an expert would suspect they had ever been in fragments. 



The Randolph remnant, in addition to the head and pelvis, gave us about half 

 the vertebrse, both scapulfe, radius and ulna, both right and left, one good femur, 

 the right, a majority of the ribs, and near a bushel of feet bones. The Randolph 

 remnant would have been secured when first taken up but for the price. By wait- 

 ing more than eight years it shrank to less than a quarter the original standard. 



The composite skeleton as it now stands was mounted by the curator of the 

 museum, assisted by a very efficient student. It is nearly all bone. Both rem- 

 nants, however, furnished but one humerus, the right. The lower jaw is perfect, 

 with all the grinders. The tusks are paper but are moulded exactly after orig- 

 inals. A tusk of the Randolph find lies on the platform, but was too heavy in its 

 brittle condition to mount. Of the vertebra;, including those of the neck, body 

 and the larger joints of the tail, thirty-six are bone. Of the thirty-eight ribs all 

 are bone but three. The hind legs are all bone except the fibula on the right 

 side. The sternum is bone. 



From the pedestal to the top of the highest spine is eleven feet, less half an 

 inch. From pedestal to crown of head is eleven feet two inches. From pedestal 

 to summit of pelvis, nine feet. From sole of foot to top of scapula, nine feet, 

 seven inches. From forward curve of tusks to backward curve of tail, twenty 

 feet, two inches. It ranks among the largest of known mastodons. Such a crea- 

 tui-e when alive could scarcely have weighed less than ten tons. 



