Notice of Dr. Warren’s Mastodon Giganteus, 367 
Arr. XLIL—WNotice of the “ Mastodon Giganteus” of Dr. 
J. C. Warren.* : 
_ We have already briefly announced the publication of the 
magnificent volume on the “ Mastodon Giganteus,” by the eminent 
Surgeon and scholar, Dr. Warren. Turning aside from the pro- 
fession which he has honored by his profound knowledge and 
Successful labors, he here enters the arena of Science, and sub- 
stantiates his claims to a distinguished place among the Zoolo- 
gists of the age 
Dr. Warren has the rare pleasure of possessing the noblest 
Specimen of the Mastodon giganteus that has yet been discov- 
ered; and fortunate it is for the old mastodon, that it has found 
a final resting place with one who has had the generosity and 
ability to raise so munificent a mausoleum to its memory. A 
Second skeleton was afterwards purchased by Dr. Warren, to 
him in his researches; and, for the same purpose, he has 
also added to his collection the skeleton of an elephant. This 
elephant—the one accidentally drowned a few years since in the 
Delaware—stands in his fine hall, by the side of the huge masto- 
don, and although a large animal of the kind, it is but a pigmy 
comparison. Dr. Warren was thus well equipped for the pros- 
“ctition of his researches; and no labor or expense has been 
‘pared, either in carrying forward his investigations or in the pub- 
lication of his results. . 
Rear Newburgh on the Hudson, where the skeleton was exhumed. 
Among wooded hills lies a large morass, part of which in the 
re) 
Surface peat of the bog, and the subjacent marl, leaving the skel- 
ton as it was found lying sprawling out, with the ribs and nearly 
‘very bone in place. The fore-feet extend beyond the head, and 
the hinder are thrown forward near the body. 
_4t was in the summer of 1845 that this burial place of the an- 
“lent giant was first disturbed. The swampy land was then dry. 
t. Brewster, while digging in the place to obtain the earth for 
fertilizing his fields in the vicinity, after penetrating through two 
*et of peat bog, one foot of red moss, and a foot of the shell 
atl, struck upon the head of the animal. The exhumation 
Went on rapidly the next day, and the cranium, ‘bones of the 
“Pine, tail, pelvis and ribs were successively found, for the most part 
n their natural relation to each other ;” and at the end of the sec- 
day, nearl y the whole skeleton had been exposed. The bones 
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tion of 1 f the Mastodon Giganteus of North America, by 
John ¢. Naren, a ve pm 4to, with a frontispiece and 27 plates in 4to. 
Boston: 1852, J, Wilson & Son’ 42 School Street. 
