FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 27 



HENRY COUNTY. 



Mt. Pleiisant.— About ten years ago several teeth and bones 

 of a mastodon Avere exhumed hi smking a well on the poor-farm 

 at Mt. Pleasant. The remains were found in the Kansan drift or 

 immediateljr below this drift. I am not certain which. They are 

 in the Museum of the Iowa AVesleyan University at Mt. Pleasant. 

 {Reported by Assistant State Geologist T. E. Savage.) 



Salem. — "I learned of the discovery of the remains of a masto- 

 don and what was said to be the tooth of an elephant (but more 

 probably mastodon), when at Salem in November, 1884, and vis- 

 ited the locality where they were found, but was unable to find 

 the man who had possession of the bones and tooth. The locality 

 is in the valley of Big Cedar creek in section eight, Salem town- 

 ship. The creek had at that time washed a channel into the bor- 

 der of an old bog, in which the fossils were imbedded." 



{Reported by Frank Leverett, Ann Arbor, Midi.) 



"Some years ago two teeth of a mastodon were brought me 

 by a couple of men to sell for them. The}' said they were dug up 

 near the bank of Skunk river, in Henry county." 



(Reported by Dr. J. M. Sliaifer, Keoisuk, Iowa.) 



JACKSON COUNTY. 



Maquoketa. — The atlas and two vertebrae of an extinct pro- 

 boscidian were found near Maquoketa and presented to the "Shr 

 seum of Cornell College. 



{Reported by Prof. Norton, Cornell College.) 



JEFFERSON COUNTY. 



Walnut creek.— In the bed of the creek, where it follows a 

 rocky cliff in the west half of the southwest quarter of section 

 twenty-eight, in Walnut township, Mr. -Josia Bates some" years 

 ago found the lower jaw of an E. americanus. Both molars were 



