28 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



30 1838? Greenville. Both Hall and Mather record in their 

 1843 reports 29 the finding of bones at Greenville, which were prob- 

 ably those of a mastodon, although Mather remarks that they were 

 " the bones of a fossil elephant, as is supposed." Hall states that 

 " the bones were imbedded in a freshwater marl, or rested upon 

 the clay beneath the marl. There is here no possibility of their 

 having been transported." This locality, which is about 2 miles 

 west of Greenville, was also visited by Sir Charles Lyell 30 in com- 

 pany with Professor Hall in 1841. Lyell states that the remains 

 of a mastodon occurred, " at a depth of 4 or 5 feet, in shell-marl, 

 with recent species of shells. These deposits of marl covered with 

 peat are newer than the boulder (drift) formation." No informa- 

 tion is available as to the exact date when the bones were found. 

 According to Mather, " Two of- the vertebrae were brought to Al- 

 bany, one of them, the den tat us, is still in the possession of Prof. 

 E. Emmons. The articulating surface of this is 9 inches in diame- 

 ter." Greenville is at an elevation of around 700 feet, about 12 

 miles west of the Hudson and 8 miles north of the higher points of 

 the northern Catskills. 



31 1840. Freehold. From a small swampy depression on the 

 farm of Charles Coonley, located on the road between Freehold and 

 Greenville, bones of a mastodon have been obtained at various times. 

 Doctor Clarke 31 records an atlas found in 1840, and within the last 

 15 years a few other bones, including one vertebra, have been 

 obtained. A vertebra from this locality is in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, having been presented by Charles Snyder of 

 Freehold. Information given the writers by residents of Freehold 

 and Greenville is to the effect that most of the bones of the masto- 

 don are still in the swampy depression, their presence having been 

 determined, it is said, by sounding. The Freehold locality is about 

 3 miles from the mastodon find recorded from west of Greenville. 



Lewis County 



32 1877. Copenhagen, Mastodon or mammoth (plate 5, upper 

 figured. Franklin B. Hough of Lowville in a letter, now in the 

 Museum files, to Dr S. B. Woodworth, Secretary of the Regents, 

 under date of September 29, 1877, writes as follows : " Mr P. H. 



"Hall. Geology of New York, pt 4, p. 367; Mather, Geology of New 

 York, pt 1, p. 44. 



30 Lyell's Travels in North America, 1845. 1 :54- See also Amer. Journal 

 Sci. 1844. 46: 322. 



31 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 69, i9o3, p. 927. 



