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an excavation for a cellar. It was obtained from a stratum of 

 drifted material about 4 feet in thickness, underlain by gneiss rock, 

 and covered with 6 feet of artificial filling. The specimen was 

 taken from one corner of the excavation, about 6 feet from each 

 wall, and 1 foot above the floor. No other parts of the animal were 

 found, nor is it likely that there would be by further exploration 

 as the material consists of drifted dirt and pebbles, and the tusk 

 was probably brought there from a distance. The specimen has 

 been donated to the School of Mines by Mr Stoker." 



5 1887? Harlem. Prof. J. F. Kemp 10 states that, "in the 

 Columbia College collection there is a mastodon tooth from that 

 [the drift] of Westchester Co., just across the Harlem river." The 

 exact locality or the date of this find has not been ascertained but 

 the locality can not be far from Morrisania where a portion of a 

 mastodon's tusk was found. The part of Westchester county above 

 referred to is now a part of Bronx county. 



Broome County 



6 1875. Center Lisle. There are in the museum of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, a humerus and a rib, identified as belonging to a mastodon 

 found a few hundred yards north of Center Lisle 11 at 1100 feet ele- 

 vation. According to Professor Tarr, 12 the remains were found in a 

 boggy place where a spring emerges from the base of a gravel ter- 

 race. The remains occurred in such a situation as to warrant the 

 inference that the animal may have mired there after the valley was 

 cut down to its present level. He states too that it is equally possible 

 to infer that the remains were washed out of the gravels and con- 

 centrated in this swampy area, but with present information it is 

 not possible to decide between these alternatives. 



7 1887? Binghamton. Mastodon or mammoth. In 1887 there 

 was presented to the State Museum by H. L. Griffis, the " water- 

 worn extremity of tusk of mastodon, found in drift while exca- 

 vating for a sewer at Binghamton, N. Y." (N. Y. State Mus. Nat. 

 Hist, 41st Annual Rep't, 1888, p. 30). 



Binghamton is situated at the junction of the Chenango and Sus- 

 quehanna rivers at an elevation of 845 feet. No direct evidence 

 presents itself which determines whether the tusk belonged to a 

 mastodon or an elephant. 



N. Y. Acad. Sci. Trans., 1887, 7:52. 



The locality is given as Lisle, in Am. Jour. Sci., 1875, 10:390. 



Geol. Atlas U. S., Folio 169 (Field ed.), 1909, p. 201. 



