150 LÖNNBERG, SOME REMAINS OF NEOMYLODON LISTAI. 



Breite 50 m. Die Höhe über dem Meere ist etwa 160 m.» 

 The research for ethnographical purpose gave only a few 

 bones and some pieces of stone which seerned to be chipped 

 by man. In the middle of the cave Dr. Nordenskjöld also 

 fonnd some more pieces of the remarkable skin, some balls 

 of hair and the large horny sheath of a big claw. The skin 

 was found in one of the crevices of the rock, the other things 

 among the loose material on the bottom, which mostly con- 

 sisted of gypsnin and limy matter which had fallen down froni 

 the roof of the cave. All the things fonnd in the cave were 

 labelled and bronght home to Upsala among the other collec- 

 tions from Patagonia and Tierra del Fnego, bnt as many other 

 things had to be considered immediately, these things were 

 put aside and forgotten for some time. Last spring, a few days 

 before Dr. Nordenskjöld left for Klondike, he remembered these 

 things from »Cueva Eberhardt» and sent nie word about them. 

 The skin was delivered to me soon after, bnt although I fonnd 

 its structure exceedingly interesting and saw that its ap- 

 pearance could not be put in connection with any of the 

 known animals in Patagonia I thought it best to wait tili 

 I could receive more detailed Information about where and 

 under which circumstances it had been found. Dr. Norden- 

 skjöld was, namely, already on his way to America, but I 

 knew he would return in the fall. A short time before my 

 friend, Dr. Nordenskjöld was safe back in Sweden again I 

 saw in -»Natural Science» No. 80 p. 288 a short notice about 

 Ameghino's: »Neomylodon listai». It Struck me at once that 

 the fragments of skin on which he had based his description 

 had probably belonged to an aniinal of the same species as 

 that from Cueva Eberhardt. It is clear that I thus became, 

 if possible, still more eager to receive füll Information from 

 Dr. Nordenskjöld. He had therefore not been many hours 

 in Sweden before he had a letter from me with several ques- 

 tions concerning this matter. A few days afterwards he ar- 

 rived in Upsala and he at once delivered to me the other 

 things which had also been found in the same cave, and at 

 the same time he told me what is quoted above, how and 

 where the discovery was made. 



After this preliminary notice I shall proceed to describe 

 the different parts of the collection and thereafter make a 

 comparison with the account which Dr. Florentino Ameghino 



