392 EXTINCT MAMMALIA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



PROBOSCIDEJS. 



MASTODON. 



Mastodon americanus. 



Giants, Cotton Mather: In a letter to Dr. Woodward, in tbe Philos. Trans. London, 1717, 



XXIX, 62. 



, Guetard : Mem. Acad. Sc. 1752, XLIX, 349. Camper : Acta Petrop. 1777, Pt. II, 219 ; 



Nov. Act. Petrop. 1788, II, 252. Annan: Mem. Am. Acad. 1785, 160. Edwards: lb. 164. 

 Anon : Columb. Mag. Philada. 1786, 104, PL Figs. 1-3. Drayton : View South Carolina, 

 &c., 1802, 39, PI. Figs. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8. 



Elephant, Elephas, Daubenton : Mem. Acad. Sc. 1762, 206. Buffon : Hist. Nat. 1754, XI, 169- 

 172. Collinsou:Phil.Tran.s. London, 1768, LVII,Pt. I, for 1767, 464. 468. Barton: Til- 

 loch's Philos. Mag. 1805, XXII, 97. 



Hiiypopotamus, Daubenton and Buflon as above. Couper: Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. 1842, 189, 216; 

 Proc. Geol. Soc. Loudon, 1843, 33. Harlan : Am. Jour. Sc. 1842, XLIII, 143. 



Pseudelephant, W. Hunter : Phil. Trans. Loudon, 1769, LVIII, for 1768, 34, PL IV, Figs. 1, 3, 5. 



Animal incognitum, Ineor/nitum, W. Hunter : Ibidem. Camper : Act. Acad. Sc. Imp. Petrop. 

 1778, Pt. II, 219. Turner: Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1799, IV, 510. Ashe: Mem. of Mam- 

 moth, Liverpool, 1806. 



American Elephant, Pennant : Synop. Quadr. 1771, 91 ; Hist. Quadr. 1781, I, 160 ; Ed. 2d, 1793, 

 I, 174. Barton: Med. and Phys. Jour. 1804, 1, 158; Suppl. 1806, 22. Madison: Barton's 

 Med. Phys. Jour. 1806, II, 58. 



Mammoth, Jefferson : Notes on Virginia, 1782, 69, 73 ; Ed. 1829, 39. Turner : Trans. Am. Philos. 

 Soc. 1799, IV, 510. R. Peale : Ac. of the Skeleton, &c. London, 1802 ; Tilloch's Philos. Mag. 

 1802, XIV, 162, 225, PI. V, Fig. 1 ; Hist. Disq. etc. 1803. Barton : Med. and Phys. Jour. 

 1804, I, 157 ; Suppl. 1806, 22. Madison : Barton's Med. and Phys. Jour. 1806, II, 58. Ashe: 

 Mem. of Mammoth, 1806. Anon.: Am. Jour. Sc. 1819, I, 239. Stewart : lb. 1828, XIV, 

 188. Mamoth, C. W. Peale : Catal. Peale's Mus. Philadelphia, 1796, 19. Mammouth, Barton : 

 Suppl. to Med. and Phys. Jour. 1806, 22. 



Mamonteum, Camper: Nov. Act. Ac. Sc. Imp. Petrop. 1788, 252, Pis. VIII. IX. 



Ohio-Incognit\mi, Blumenbach: Abbild. Naturh. Gegenst. 1797, No. 19, according to DeBlain. 

 ville's Osteog. Gen. Elephas, 245; Ibidem Giittingen, 1810, No. 19, PL 19 A. 



Elephas americanus,* Cuvier : Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat. (an 6) 1798, 149 ; Mem. Inst. Nat. Sci. (An 

 VII) 19, 21. Barton : Med. and Phys. Jour. 1806, II, 157 ; Suppl. 1807, 168. 



Mammut ohiot{cu7n,-f Bhimenhach: Naturges. 6th Ed. 1799, 698 ; 8th Ed. 1807, 730, quoted from 



* Cuvier, in the works quoted, and PeBlainville. in his dsteog. Gen. Elephants, 237, 245, attribute this name 

 to Pennant. Falconer and Cautley, in the Fauna Antiq. Sival., 17, also observe, " that Pennant first ventured 

 in 1793 to designate the American fossil animal, in a systematic work, as a species of Elephant by the name of 

 E. americanus." I have been unable to find the name thus expressed in any of the works of Pennant, nearer 

 than the words "American Elephant," which occur in the Synopsis of Quadrupeds of 1771 and in both 

 editions of the History of Quadrupeds, that of 1781 and 1793. Systematically expressed, the name of Ele- 

 phas americanus appears to have been first employed by Cuvier, in attributing' it to PennMut. 



tThe name is first employed by Blumenbach in the sixth edition of the Handb. d. Naturgeschichte, pub- 

 lished in Gottingen in 1799. In the fifth edition, published in 1797, page 703, under the head of Incognita, he 

 calls the Mastodon "das famose Land-Ungeheuer der Vorwelt, der i;)(Z(/o so genannte fleischfressende Ele- 

 phant, dessen Gebcinc besondcrs am Ohio in Nordamei-ica in Menge ausgegraben werden " Falconer incor- 

 rectly attributes the name to the edition of 1797, PaUeont. Mem. 1868, I, Note 4 to page .5.'). 



