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The mounted skeleton of the mammoth in the museum 

 of the Chicago Academy of Science is still the only one on 

 exhibition in the United States ; this specimen is prohahly 

 the Southern Mammoth^ Elephas cohimbi, a species, or 

 race, characterized by its great size and the coarse struct- 

 ure of the teeth. Remains of the mammoth are common 

 enough but, save in Alaska, they are usually in a poor 

 state of preservation or consist of isolated hones or teeth. 

 A great many skeletons of mammoth have been found by 

 gold miners in Alaska, and with proper care some of 

 these could undoubtedly have been secured. Nattirally, 

 however, the miners do not feel like taking the time and 

 trouble to exhume hones whose value is uncertain, while 

 the cost of transportation precludes the bringing out of 

 many specimens. 



Some reports of mammoths have been based on the 

 bones of whales, including a skull that was figured in 

 the daily papers. 



Almost every museum has on exhibition teeth of the 

 mammoth, and there is a skull, though from a small in- 

 dividual, of the Southern Mammoth in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York. 



The tusk obtained by Mr. Beach and mentioned in 

 the text still holds the record for mammoth tusks. The 



