Distribution, Food and Climate of the Mammoth. 13 
Arr, IL.—General Geological Distribution and probable Food 
and Climate of the Mammoth; by Prof. R. Owen.* 
Tue remains of the Mammoth occur on the Continent, as in 
England, in the superficial deposits of sand, gravel, and loam, 
which are strewed over all parts of Europe; and they are found 
in still greater abundance in the same formations of Asia, especial- 
ly in the higher latitudes, where the soil which forms their ma- 
trix is perennially frozen.t Remains of the Mammoth have 
been found in great abundance in the cliffs of frozen mud on the 
east side of Behring’s Straits, in Eschscholtz's Bay, in Russian 
ogists and naturalists, biased more or less by the analogy of the 
existing Elephants, which are restricted to climes where the trees 
flourish with perennial foliage, have had recourse to the hypothe- 
sis of a change of climate in the northern hemisphere, either sud- 
den, and due to a great geological cataclysm,g or gradual, and 
brought about by progressive alterations of land and sea.|| 
-* Extracted from Prof. Owen’s British Fossil Mammalia, 8vo. London, 1846 
_ | Hedenstrém, in his “ Survey of the Laechow Islands,” on the north-eastern 
coast of Siberia, remarks, that the first of these islands is little more than one muss 
f these bones ; and that although the Siberian traders have been in the habit of 
bringing over large cargoes of them (tusks) for upwards of sixty years, yet there 
@ppears to be no sensible diminution.” ' ; 
i bags fossil elephantine remains discovered in India, belong to a species more 
early allied to the Elephas indicus. ni " ; 
§ Cities, * Discours An les Révolutions de la Surface du Globe.” It is obvi- 
ps ; 
that the revolutions on the earth's surface had been sudden.” aaa’ affirms that 
moth 
the region where its carcass was arrested, and that at the moment when the beast 
was destroyed, the land which it trod became glacial. ‘ Cette gelée éternelle n oc- 
Sous une pareille température. C'est done le ie temhne gut fet peri jou sei- 
mMaux, et qui a rendu glacial le pays qu’ , é i 
instante ; hd ‘iicutte ttedadion eee.” —Ossemens Fossiles, 8vo, ed. 1834, tom. i, 
i Lyell, « Principles of Geology,” in which the phenomena that had been sup- 
posed “to have Camuabed for evant idea of a slow and gradual revolution, * were 
first attempted to be accounted for by the gradual operation of ordinary and exist- 
ing causes. 
* Jameson’s “Cuvier’s Theory of the Earth,” Svo, p. 16, 1813. 
