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of a similar bison are preserved in the Cincinnati 

 Natural History Museum. I copy from one of 

 their records : " The most conspicuous figure on 

 Plate IX, with immense horn cores, is of the long 

 extinct broad-fronted bison. This specimen, by far 

 the finest of its kind in existence, is the greatest 

 prize in the Cincinnati Museum. It was found in 

 1869 on Brush Creek, Brown County, Ohio, and 

 through the efforts of Dr. O. D. Norton it was ac- 

 quired by the Museum in 1875." It gives me great 

 pleasure to show my readers a photograph of the 

 Kansas form that measures along the curve of the 

 horn cores a foot and a half more than the famous 

 Ohio specimen. (Fig. 43.) 



The great Columbian Elephant, whose jaw I il- 

 lustrate and have still in my possession, represents 

 one of the largest, or the largest, of its kind ever dis- 

 covered. It was found near the town of Ness City, 

 in Ness County, Kansas. This giant lived at the 

 same time the great Bison existed. The last molars 

 have pushed out the worn premolars and the other 

 two molars, and occupy the entire jaw, having a 

 grinding surface of 5 x 9 inches. The lower parts 

 of the teeth flare out like a fan, and measure twenty 

 inches along the top of the roots. The greatest cir- 

 cumference of the jaws is 2&/ 2 inches, and the 

 length 32 inches. Unfortunately, the articulations 

 are worn away, likely by rolling in some river bed. 



