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Northern Mammoth are smaller, and the plates of enamel thinner, 

 and closer to one another. Mr. F. E. Andrews, of Gunsight, 

 Texas, reports having found a femur, or thigh-bone five feet four 

 inches long, and a humerus measuring four feet three inches, 

 probably from the Imperial Mammoth, these being the largest 

 bones on record indicating an animal fourteen feet high. 



There is a vast amount of literature relating to the mammoth, 

 some of it very untrustworthy. A list of all discoveries of speci- 

 mens in the flesh is given by Nordenskiold in " The Voyage of 

 the Vega," and " The Mammoth and the Flood," by Sir Henry 

 Howorth, is a mine of information. Mr. Townsend's "Alaska 

 Live-Mammoth Story" may be found in "Forest and Stream" 

 for August 14, 1897. 



THE MAMMOTH AS ENGRAVED BY A PRIMITIVE ARTIST 

 on a Piece of Mammoth Tusk. 



