12 FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 



feet of these, he came upon mastodon bones in abundance. Skulls 

 of at least six different individuals had been found in a well ten 

 feet in diameter when I visited the place in 1902. These animals 

 had evidently resorted to this drinking place and had mired in 

 the bog. Old settlers related several instances of cattle becoming 

 mired at this place in the same way." 



(Reported by E. 8. Riggs, Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Field Colum- 

 bian Museum, Chicago.) 



HANCOCK COUNTY. 



Warsaw. "About five or six years ago one of my nephews 

 found a large fragment (about one-half or more) of a mastodon 

 tooth, sticking out of the bank of a creek, about five miles below 

 Warsaw." 



(Reported by Charles K. Worthen, Warsaw, III.) 



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HENRY COUNTY. 



Penny's Slough. The tooth of a mammoth in a good state 

 of preservation was found in Penny's Slough and presented to the 

 Davenport, Iowa, Academy of Science. 



(Information obtained from label on specimen.) 



Cambridge. The Museum of the Chicago Academy of Science 

 contains part of a tusk of a mastodon, recovered at Cambridge 

 from a well, sixteen feet below the surface; condition poor. 



(Reported by Frank C. Baker, Curator, Chicago Academy of Science.) 



JO DAVIESS COUNTY. 



Blue Mounds. Mastodon remains have been taken from a 

 great number of crevices over the whole area of 'the lead region, 

 showing the species to have lived in immense numbers and 

 through a long period of time. From a crevice near Blue Mounds, 



