170 MASTODON REMAIN'S IX NOVA SCOTIA. PIERS. 



Geological age. — DouLtless precisely the same as in the 

 case of the femur, 



Eemarls. — The size of the tooth indicates that it belonged 

 to an individual smaller than that from ^hich the femur was 

 derived. These specimens therefore show that two Mastodons 

 at least existed in Cape Breton island, no doubt both belonging 

 to the same species. The tooth was shoT\-n by Dr. Honeyman 

 in the Xova Scotian pala?ontological collections of the exhibi- 

 tion at South Kensington. England, in 1862. and he then com- 

 pared it with many teeth of M. americanus in the British 

 Museum, with which it agreed. 



References and figures. — Dawson (Sir J. AV.i. Acadian 

 Geology. 2nd ed.. 1S68. p. S3, with figure showing outer side, 

 reduced to about half natural size, on p. 84; also in subse- 

 quent editions. Honeyman (Rev. D.), Giants and PigTnies. 



1887, p. 88. 



Tusl'. 



Tibsk. — In the beforementioned manuscript list of articles 

 in the Halifax Mechanics' Institute museum, prepared about 

 ]835, there is listed a "Large tooth of some unknoTATi animal 

 found in Island Cape Breton, presented by Mr. Le[o]nard,'' 

 as well as the right thigh-bone already described. In Creed's 

 inventory of June, 1839, we find ''Femur of fossil Mastodon; 

 tooth of do. do.."' and Dr. Honeyman has written opposite the 

 "tooth/"' not found, that is when he took over the musetim in 

 1868. 



Dawson (Acadian Geology, 1st ed,, 1855, p. 57) says that 

 the thigh-bone in the museum of the ]\Iechanics" Institute and 

 some fraginents of a ttisk were the only remains of the 

 Mastodon he had up to then actually seen in the province, and 

 furthermore states that he had not seen any teeth. As Dawson 

 was very familiar with the contents of the Institute museum, 

 there can be no doubt that he considered the so-called tooth to 

 be fragments of a tusk or highly developed, upper incisor tooth 

 of the animal. 



