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may be found to belong to the Fossil Elephant. The mutilated at 
of some renders it extremely difficult: to pronounce with | i. 
tainty upon a slight examination. 
The remains of the fossil Elephant seieapriteg in this cali, sae 
are next in interest and number to those of the Mastodon. . he 
The first that we shall notice is a head of a young individual, more i ) 
complete than any known to your co ttee, to have been obtain- 
ed in North America. It consists of the upper and lower maxillary ; 
bones, with six molar teeth i e aa preservation, Isolated grinders 
ip. 6 discovered in the U d States in numerous instances, — 
but generally. without any portion of bone adhering to them. There 
are also of the Elephant, i in this collection, several other lange fae 
_ Ments of jaws, a twenty separate molar teeth. 
Of the Horse, 1 are perfect teeth, and other portions, found 
under circumstances that favor the belief of their being of equal an- 
tiquity with the extinct animals whose remains are associated with 
them in the Collection. The teeth are remarkably large and sound. 
Of Ruminating animals, there are skulls and some other parts of 
the Buffalo, Bos Americanus ; of the extinct species named by Dr. 
Harlan, Bos bombafrons, and a large species * Cervus, resem- 
bling C. Alces. 
Finally, we have also discovered among these interesting cokes, 
some considerable portions of the Megalonyx, whose os eolog gy is 3 
still so imperfectly | known. ‘The most important of these is a right 
lower maxillary bone, with four teeth in the sockets, and another de 
tached tooth which appears to have come from the upper jaw. 
There is also the tibia of the right leg, and perhaps some other ae -" 
Which may prove to belong to the same animal. 
‘Remarks by the Editor—Having (since the above account was 
received) scen the collection of bones so accurately described above, 
‘Cannotrefrain from attempting to convey to others something of the 
impression made. upon my own mind on entering the room contain- ~ 
ing this. astonishing assemblage of bones, many of li of gi 
gantic size. They produce in the beholder the stronge st con viction 
that races ‘of animals formerly existed on this continent, not only 
of vast magnitude, but which must also have been very numerous ; 
and: the Mastodon, at least, eee in herds, over probably the 
entire American continents. 
It is stated by th e person aa exhibits this salibasioil that the 
skull, and the tusks which it contains, weigh upwards of five hundred 
Pounds ; that a pair of tusks now lying in the room, and supposed to . 
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