FROZEN MAMMOTH IK SIBERIA. 623 



October 7.- — To-day we first packed up the rig-ht leg and then 

 resumed the cleaning of the stomach. Those parts of the stomach that 

 were exposed to the air for any length of time tear even when most 

 cautiously touched, exactly like the membrane beneath the ribs. I 

 succeeded, however, in removing from the bod}^ a considerable portion 

 of the stomach with its contents, which I take with me in a good state 

 of preservation. 



In the afternoon we succeeded in exposing" that part of the body 

 which we could not reach before, and which lay all the time in the 

 frozen g'round. This part was 9 centimeters lower than the left fore- 

 arm, and 13 centimeters lower than than the sole of the left hind foot, 

 and proved to be the protruded male genital, 86 centimers long above 

 and 105 centimeters long below; 10 centimeters above the urinary 

 meatus; the diameter of the flattened-out penis is 19 centimeters. 



Octobei' 8. — The more the hind part becomes free the more difficult 

 becomes the work. The left side of the broken pelvis was removed. 

 The flesh beneath the pelvis is still frozen and hard as stone, just like 

 the flesh about the shoulder blades. Near the stomach there is a lump 

 of ice which we must remove little b}" little. The cross bone or sacrum 

 was found intact. 



Oetoher 9. — This morning we cut off' the left hind leg and the right 

 hind one this afternoon. The thigh bones, which were severed with 

 great difficulty from the frozen meat that surrounds them, were so 

 strongly connected with the tibia that it was necessar}^ to cut all these 

 bones out together and dismember them the next day. 



The color of the hair of the right hind fenuir varies from rust- 

 brown to black. Best of all preserved was the hair in the skin fold 

 between the genital and the left hind leg. The crumpled hair of the 

 under wool is 30 to 3.5 centimeters long; the bristly hair is 32 centi- 

 meters long. I saved some pathological growths f roui the right shoul- 

 der bone, also some layers of hair with exact descriptions as to their 

 position on the body. 



October 10. — After removing about 270 pounds of flesh we started 

 the raising of the abdominal skin, which turned out to be still quite 

 bulk}^ and which we had decided must be cut up. After raising the 

 piece of skin, which weighed about 170 pounds, we discovered, to 

 our greatest joy, the entire tail of the. mammoth, and by means of it 

 explained the other puzzling point. The joy that possessed us at this 

 new discover}^ was so great that, lowering the skin to the ground 

 again, we gave three loud cheers. We could not decide to cut up 

 the still intact piece of skin, as we wished to be able to bring this 

 interesting object intact to the academy. 



The tail is short, and consists evidentl}^ of 22 to 25 caudal vertebrge. 

 It is not as long as the drawing made under Von Brandt's supervision, 



