10 FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 



DU PAGE COUNTY. 



About 1875 some mastodon remains were found in a bog 

 about eight miles southwest from Naperville. They were donated 

 to the Museum of Jennings Seminary, Aurora. 



(Reported ty L. M. Umbach, Northwestern College.) 



Wheaton. — About 1890 the remains of a mammoth were 

 found while ditching on the Jewell farm near Wheaton. The re- 

 mains consisted of about a dozen ribs, as many vertebrae, one 

 femur, and other parts of the legs. 



(Reported ty Pres. Charles A. BlancTiard, Wheaton College.) 



EDGAR COUNTY. 



The bottoms of the prairie sloughs along the western edge of 

 Edgar county generally contain more or less light brown marh- 

 clay containing fresh water shells. From one of these slough bot- 

 toms a nearly perfect skeleton of a mastodon was obtained some 

 j^ears since, which, after having been exhibited through all this 

 part of the United States, is said to have been sold to a Philadel- 

 phia museum. Fragments of this animal are not rare hereabouts. 



(Illinois Geological Survey, Yol. IV, p. 216.) 



FULTON COUNTY. 



The Museum of Knox College contains the tooth of an ele- 

 phant which was found in Fulton county. This specimen, which 

 is much decayed, was found near the surface of the ground. 



(Reported ly Albert Surd, Curator of Museum, Knox College.) 



GALLATIN COUNTY. 



Equality. — "Half Moon" — Many mammoth and mastodon 

 bones and enamel plates of teeth, the less enduring parts of the 

 latter mouldered into dust, have been found here. Half Moon is 



