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Austin, of the Oklahoma College for Women, at Chickasha, Oklahoma, 

 who was the proud owner of this fossil elephant. Fortunately, the 

 fossil was discovered during the brief interval between the close of the 

 spring semester and the beginning of the summer term, making it 

 possible to take a day for the trip from the State University at Nor- 

 man, Oklahoma, to Chickasha. 



Fig. 9.5. — Remains of Mammoth discovered in road-side 

 ditch. 



On arrival, President Austin reported that at a point across the 

 Washita river about four miles from Chickasha, a rural mail carrier 

 had noticed the ends of large bones projecting from the bank of the 

 drain ditch along the roadside where a recent rain had exposed part 

 of the skeleton. Laborers had exposed the most of the upper surface 

 of the skeleton by this time as shown in figure 95. Had the workmen 



