30 FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 



preserved. Some of them are in the museum at Tabor. The pe- 

 culiar simple tooth, which I took out myself, had about the form 

 as sketched. I do not have it at hand. The remains comprise a 

 dilapidated skull with tusks and teeth, several leg bones, but I 

 think only the ends of some of the latter, perhaps the head of a 

 humerus, are all that are at Tabor. The remains were five to 

 eight feet below the surface of the east slope of the cut north of 

 the railroad between Glenwood and Pacific Junction, not far from 

 Keg creek and north of the railroad. They were in the upper part 

 of the boulder clay below the loess. The deposits near them ap- 

 peared to be water laid, and were quite gravelly." 



(Private communication from Prof. J. E Todd.) 



Pacific Junction. Some bones of an elephant or a mastodon 

 were unearthed near the base of the loess, while grading for the 

 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad at the southernmost 

 point of the bluffs between Keg creek and the Missouri bottoms 



east of Pacific Junction. 



(Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XIII, p. 170.) 



Malvern. Bones of a mammoth were exhumed from the lower 

 part of the loess in grading for the Chicago, Burlington and 

 Quincy railroad. The excavation was made in 1879 at the cross- 

 ing of First avenue and Railway street. There were three teeth, 

 part of a tusk, and two long bones. 



(Iowa Geological Survey (Udden), Vol. XIII, p. 170.) 



"A mammoth was unearthed when the Wabash railroad went 

 through Malvern, in a cut made just northeast of the crossing of 

 the Wabash and Burlington roads. Several teeth, tusk, vertebrae, 

 and ribs were taken out, and several of them are in the Museum 

 at Tabor. The tusk was eight or nine inches through and several 

 feet long. The vertebrae were dorsal and had the long spinous pro- 

 cesses on them. The teeth showed the typical americanus form." 



(Extract from a letter by Prof. Todd.) 



These notes probably refer to the same specimens as are re- 

 ported by Udden. 



