28 FOSSIL MASTODON AND MAMMOTH REMAINS. 



well preserved, and the entire specimen weighed fifty pounds. To 

 what part of the drift it belongs is not evident. 



{Iowa Geological Survey (Udden), Vol. XII, p. 428.) 



LEE COUNTY. 



Denmark. — "I saw a large leg bone of a mastodon a few years 

 ago at Denmark, which had been found in Lost Creek Valley in 

 section three or four, Washington tomiship. I think the bone 

 belonged to Mr. Justus M. T. Myers, of Fort Madison." 



(Reported by Frank Lererett, Ana Arbor, ilicb.) 



Concerning this find, Mr. ilyers himself reports as follows: 

 "In 1898 I found in Lost Creek, Lee county, one leg bone, six 

 inches in diameter and nearly three feet long, one of the short 

 ribs, eighteen inches of tusk, and two small pieces of bone of mas- 

 todon, all close together. Since then have looked the creek over 

 for miles, but have found nothing more. Associated with these 

 remains were one human leg bone and one flint arrow-head.'' 



Montrose. — "'In 1896 I found one molar of Elephas primige- 

 nius in a creek below Montrose, and the same year I also found in 



Sugar Creek — The molar of another extinct elephant, which I 



cannot determine." 



(Reported by Justus M. T. Myers, Fort Madison.) 



"Some years ago there was brought to me — to dispo.se of — a 

 fine fossil, the larger part' of the pelvis— right side — of the masto- 

 don. The acetabulum and attached portions were perfect. Its 

 weight was nearly two hundred pounds ('?). This specimen was 

 found on Skunk river, in Lee county," 



(Reported by Dr. J. M. Shaffer, Keokuk, Iowa.) 



LINN COUNTY 



Bertram. — Part of a tusk of a mastodon was found in a gravel 

 pit at Bertram and presented by S. C. Comstock to the Chicago 

 Academy of Science. 



(Reported by Frank C. Baker, Curator, Chicago Academy of Science.) 



