ALLAMAKEE COUNTY. 



Postville. During the summer of 1904, Mr. Th6mas French 

 found four teeth, the lower jaw, and a portion of the vertebral 

 column of a mammoth sticking out of the bank of Yellow River, 

 where it cuts through his farm, four miles north of Postville. The 

 bank had caved away, exposing the bones, which lay on a gravel 

 bed. The teeth each measured about four and a half by eleven 

 inches and weighed thirteen and a half pounds. The remains are 

 all in an excellent state of preservation. 



(Reported by Mr. Thomas French ) 



BENTON COUNTY. 



Shellsburg.I-n. 1903, Mr. J. Grubb, of Shellsburg, found a 

 mastodon tooth in the alluvium of Bear creek. A portion of a 

 rib was previously found near the same place. 



(Reported by Assistant State Geologist T. E. Savage.} 



Mr. J. A. Burns, who found the rib, reports further regarding 

 this find: "The tooth and rib were found on my farm in Benton 

 township. The tooth was about the size of an ordinary five or 

 six pound flatiron and was in a splendid state of preservation. It 

 is now in the possession of Mr. Grubb's son, near Kingsley, Iowa. 

 The rib measured about three feet in length. I gave it to a Cor- 

 nell, Iowa, student." 



CEDAR COUNTY. 



Several finely preserved mammoth teeth were found on the 

 farm of A. T. Whitnell, on the southeast quarter of the southeast 

 quarter of section six, Springfield township. These were found in a 



