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museum contains five molar teeth and parts of tusks from western 

 New York and probably belong to the Geneseo specimen. The 

 molar from Geneseo figured by Hall, shows the root processes. It 

 is not known whether this specimen has been preserved. It may 

 have represented the best of the molars or the processes may have 

 been added when making the drawing. The early accounts stated 

 that the root processes were all broken and decayed. 



34 1886. Fowlerville. Some remains of a mastodon were 

 found in an excavation on the bank of the Genesee river, 80 feet 

 above the water. Three or four teeth, tusks and some badly broken 

 bones were found. 39 Some of the teeth are said to be in a private 

 collection in Rochester. 



35 3[ 835- Scottsburg. An account of the finding of this speci- 

 men is given in "A History of Livingston County" (1876, p. 380). 

 The account states that the " discovery was made about the year 

 1835, in straightening the road from Scottsburgh to Conesus lake. 

 In digging the ditch on the east side of the road, where it ran 

 through a swamp of five or six acres, near the inlet of the lake 

 and about thirty rods to the west, the remains of a mastodon 

 were found, about three feet below the surface. Eight teeth were 

 found, four of which had blunt points, and weighing about two 

 pounds each. The shoulder blades, pieces of the ribs and some 

 joints of the backbone were also found. Some of these bones are 

 now in the Le Roy Female Seminary." Clarke 40 states on the 

 authority of C. E. Beecher that twenty bones and fragments 

 were collected by F. H. Bradley and H. A. Green, which were pre- 

 sented to Yale University Museum by R. S. Fellows. There is a 

 possibility that the record presented above may actually represent 

 two finds in the vicinity of Scottsburg. Data to determine this 

 point are not available. 



36 1900? Nunda. It is not known whether this find represents 

 a mastodon or mammoth. The only account we have of the bones 

 is the brief statement of Clarke 41 which reads, " Ten bones and 

 fragments, collected by Rev. Milton Waldo and presented by R. S. 

 Fellows to Yale University Museum, C. E. Beecher." As no ac- 

 count of the find is given in the History of Livingston County pub- 

 lished in 1876, the bones were probably collected between that date 

 and 1900. 



89 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 69, 1903, p. 932. 



40 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 69, 1903, p. 932. 



41 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 69, 1903, p. Q32. 



