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the double carity on each side of the vertebra, it is obvious that the 

 heads of the ribs were bifurcated. 



The bone bears the impress of the muscles and tendons that were 

 inserted into it ; there is even a degree of lustre where these soft 

 parts played, and had the bone been preserved in an anatomical mu- 

 seum, it could scarcely have been more perfect. It was discovered 

 in a tufaceous lacustrine formation, containing bleached individuals of 

 the genera Planorbis, Lymnsea, Cyclas, he. similar to those occupy- 

 ing the waters of the vicinity; and from the high preservation of the 

 bone, the hope was entertained that the other parts might be near at 

 hand, and that possibly a skeleton might be obtained. This is we 

 believe only the third instance of a mastodon bone found east of the 

 Hudson river. 



1. One presented to Yale College Museum by Hon. John Cotton 

 Smith, late Gov. of Connecticut, found we believe in Sharon, Conn. 



2. Molar teeth found at Cheshire, in digging the canal from New 

 Haven to Northampton. 



3. The other is the present case. 



The vertebra of Berlin was generously presented by Mr. E. H. 

 Burritt, and several other gentlemen were active in procuring and 

 forwarding this specimen, and in promoting an investigation of the 

 ground. We are particularly indebted to Dr. John R. Lee. 



4. Fossil Tooth. From Mr. John Hazeltine, of Jamestown, 



Chatauque County, State of New York, we have received by the 

 kindness of Mr. John T. Norton, of Albany, an interesting specimen 

 of a portion of a fossil jaw, containing two molar teeth in a high state 

 of preservation. The circumstances attending their position and dis- 

 covery are thus described in a letter before us, dated Aug. 4, 1834. 



"They were found by Mr. Hazeltine in digging for the foundation 

 of a manufactory on the outlet of Chatauque Lake, about ten feet 

 below the surface of an unbroken soil. The man who twenty two 

 years ago cut the first trees where the village of Jamestown now 

 stands, is still living; and the whole of that region was then an unbro- 

 ken forest. The soil where these teeth were found is mostly gravel ; 

 they were imbedded, in the words of Mr. H., in ' a kind of black 

 muck.' Some other bones were visible, but too much decayed to 

 be rescued. As near as I could judge, the teeth were found a little 

 below the present level of the creek. Chatauque Lake is situated 

 seven miles from Lake Erie, about sixty miles above Buffalo ; it is 



