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nog Collection of Fossil Bones. 
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as XXIL. —Report® of Messrs. Coorzr, J. A. Surru, and Dr 
a Kay, to the Lyceum of Natural History, on a collection of Fossil 
~ bones, -disinterred at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, an pinecnas 
1830, Sod recently brought to New York. 
Fe ae Hood way 30, 1831. 
tar Committee beg leave. respectfully t to report, that these bones 
d only within a few days, sufficient time has. not 
1 for the accurate dae ipination of every imperfect 
_»-or mutilated fi 21 t. The greater “part, however, belonging to 
well known animals, were immediately recognized, and it is not be- 
lieved tl any thing of much importance will be hereafter observed. 
They th erefore: subinit, this. evening, a general account of this col- 
lection, reserving for a future occasion such ie particulars as geil 
be deemed of sufficient interest. 
The remains of the Great Mastodon compose more hab one half 
the entire quantity of which this collection consists. . Among thems 
a head, which, though not entire, is in better preservation than any 
of this animal heretofore discovered. It enables us to form a better 
idea of the figure of this important part, than could hitherto be obtain- 
ed. It is found to have the cranium much depressed, in which it devi- 
ates remarkably from the Elephant. Both the tusks are preserved, 
one ng having been found still in the socket, and the othe ee n 
~ Of “9 = large tusks, there are Lenin five that nneagie from six 
pi a malt to twelve feet in length, and many more large agen 
Six po onions of upper j jaws, all containing a 
 Bifteso portions of lower jaws, twelve of which contain from ¢ one 
to three grinders each. = 
~ Besides these, there are Pies ihree detached molar spade of all 
we somnasborn as large as any yet discovered. 
the large bones of the anterior extremity, there are Sal scap- 
po seven humeri, three ulne, and one radius, more or less perfect- 
Of the posterior ex tremity, six ossa innominata, ten femora, and five 
tibiz. Some of these are almost entire, others are much mutil 
It is necessary to observe, that although these large bones, a5 as well 
as the detached tusks, have been provisionally referred to the Mas- 
todon, yet it is not improbable that on a further comparison a itt 
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-% Inserted in this Journal by permission of the Lyceum. 
