392 EXTINCT MAMMALIA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



PROBOSGIDEJE. 



MASTODON. 



Majstodon americanus. 



Giants, Cotton Mather: In a letter to Dr. Woodward, in the Philos. Trans. London, 1717, 



XXIX, 62. 

 , Guetard : Mem. Acad. Sc. 1752, XLIX, 349. Camper : Acta Petrop. 1777, Pt. II, 219 ; 



Nov. Act. Petrop. 1788, II, 252. Annan: Mem. Am. Acad. 1785, 160. Edwards: lb. 164. 



Anon: Columb. Mag. Philada. 1786, 104, PL Figs. 1-3. Drayton: View South Carolina, 



&c., 1802, 39, PI. Figs. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8. 

 Elephant, Elephas, Daubenton : Mem. Acad. Sc. 1762, 206. Buffon : Hist. Nat. 1754, XI, 169- 



172. Collinson : Phil. Trans. London, 1768, LVII, Pt. I, for 1767, 464. 468. Barton: Til- 

 loch's Philos. Mag. 1805, XXII, 97. 

 IIi2)popotainics, Daubenton and Buffon as above. Couper: Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. 1842, 189, 216; 



Proc. Geol. Soc. London, 1843, 33. Harlan : Am. Jour. Sc. 1842, XLIII, 143. 

 Pseudelephant, W. Hunter : Phil. Trans. Loudon, 1769, LVIII, for 1768, 34, PL IV, Figs. 1, 3, 5. 

 Animal incognitum, Incognitum, W. Hunter: Ibidem. Camper: Act. Acad. Sc. Imp. Petrop. 



1778, Pt. II, 219. Turner: Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1799, IV, 510. Ashe : Mem. of Mam- 

 moth, Liverpool, 1806. 

 American Elephant, Pennant ; Synop. Quadr. 1771, 91 ; Hist. Quadr. 1781, I, 160 ; Ed. 2d, 1793, 



1,174. Barton: Med. and Pliys. Jour. 1804, I, 158; SuppL 1806,22. Madison: Barton's 



Med. Phys. Jour. 1806, II, 58. 

 Mammoth, Jefferson : Notes on Virginia, 1782, 69, 73 ; Ed. 1829, 39. Turner : Trans. Am. Philos. 



Soc. 1799, IV, 510. R. Peale : Ac. of the Skeleton, &c. London, 1802 ; Tilloch's Philos. Mag. 



1802, XIV, 162, 225, PI. V, Fig. 1 ; Hist. Disq. etc. 1803. Barton : Med. aud Phys. Jour. 



1804, I, 157 ; SuppL 1806, 22. Madison : Barton's Med. and Phys. Jour. 1806, II, 58. Ashe: 



Mem. of Mammoth, 1806. Anon.: Am. Jour. Sc. 1819, I, 239. Stewart : lb. 1828, XIV, 



188. Mamoth, C. W. Peale : Catal. Peale's Mus. Philadelphia, 1796, 19. Mammouth, Barton : 



SuppL to Med. and Phys. Jour. 1806, 22. 

 Mamonteum, Camper: Nov. Act. Ac. Sc. Imp. Petrop. 1788, 252, Pis. VIII. IX. 

 Ohio- Incognitum, Blumenbach: Abbild. Naturh. Gegenst. 1797, No. 19, according to DeBlain. 



ville's Osteog. Gen. Elephas, 245 ; Ibidem Gottingen, 1810, No. 19, PL 19 A. 

 Elephas americanus,* Cuvier: Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat. (an 6) 1798, 149; Mem. Inst. Nat. Sci. (An 



VII) 19, 21. Barton : Med. and Phys. Jour. 1806, II, 157 ; SuppL 1807, 168. 

 3fammutohioticum,-fB\umeuhach: Naturges. 6th Ed. 1799, 698; 8th Ed. 1807, 730, quoted from 



* Cuvier, in the works quoted, and DeBlainville. in his Osteog. Gen. Elephants, 237, 245, attribute this name 

 to Pennant. Falconer and Cautley, in the Fauna Antiq. Sival., 17, also observe, " that Pennant first ventured 

 in 1793 to designate the American fossil animal, in a systematic worlj, as a species of Elephant by the name of 

 E. americanus." I have been unable to find the name thus expressed in any of the works of Pennant, nearer 

 than the words "American Elephant," which occur in the Synopsis of Quadrupeds of 1771 and in both 

 editions of the History of Quadrupeds, that of 1781 and 1793. Systematically expressed, the name of Ele- 

 phas americanus appears to have been first employed by Cuvier, in attributing it to Pennant. 



fThe name is first employed by Blnmenbach in the sixth edition of the Handb. d. Naturgeschichte, pub- 

 lished in Gottingen in 1799. In the fifth edition, published in 1797, page 703, under the head of Incognita, he 

 calls the Mastodon "das famose Land-Ungeheuer der Vorwelt, der t'itZ^o so genannte fleischfressende Ele- 

 phant, dessen Gebeine besonders am Ohio in Nordamerica in Menge ausgegraben werden." Falconer incor- 

 rectly attributes the name to the edition of 1797, Palaiont. Mem. 1868, I, Note 4 to page 5.'>. 



