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no good and conclusive reason why there should not l)e. True, there 

 are no live mammoths to be had at any price; neither are their car- 

 casses to be had on demand; still there is good reason to believe that 

 a much smaller sum than that said to have been paid by Mr. Conradi 

 for the mammoth which is not in the Smithsonian Institution, would 

 pk.ce one there. It probably could not be done in one year; it might 

 not be possible in five years; but should any man of means wish to 

 secure enduring fame by showing the world the mammoth as it stood 

 in life a hundred centuries ago, before the dawn of even tradition, he 

 could probably accomplish the result by the expenditure of a far less 

 sum than it would cost to participate in an international yacht race. 

 Who will be the first to dispatch an expedition to seek a frozen 

 mammoth % 



