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of Mr. Bishop, noticed in the last number of this Journal, belong 

 to one species of the mastodon. The teeth of the elephant were 

 from some place, it is said, in Ohio. Those of the mastodon were 

 found with the tusk in Perinton, as described." 



It is evident from Dewey's statement that the remains at Perinton 

 were those of a mastodon, and his statement finds substantiation 

 in " Sketches of Rochester " by Henry O'Reilly, published at Roch- 

 ester in 1838, which has the following account of the Rochester 

 Museum (p. 381), "The proprietor is J. R. Bishop. Some small 

 remains of the mastodon, found in Perinton, in Rochester, and on 

 the western prairies, may be seen in this collection." 



The Perinton fossil remains are also described by O'Reilly as 



follows : 



It was on the bank of this stream tlrondequoit], near Fullam's Basin, 

 in the town of Perrinton, that the thigh bone, one large tusk, and two 

 teeth of the fossil elephant, mastodon, were found in the diluvium, over 

 which stood the aged trees of an ancient forest. A part of these remains 

 are now to be seen in the Rochester Museum kept by Mr Bishop. The 

 discovery was made by Mr Wm. Mann while digging up a stump. The 

 teeth were deposited about 4 feet below the surface of the earth. These 

 were in a tolerably good state of preservation; the roots began to crumple 

 a little on exposure, but the enamel of the teeth was in almost a perfect 

 state. 



Under the heading "American Elephant," DeKay 44 in 1842, de- 

 scribed what he considered to be a new species of fossil elephant 

 (Elephas americanus). He states that the specimens 

 " were found in a diluvial formation near the Irondiquoit river in 

 Monroe county, 10 miles east of the city of Rochester. According 

 to a writer in the American Journal [of Science], volume 32, page 

 377, these remains consisted of a tusk and two molars, one of which 

 is in the Cabinet of the Lyceum (New York) and is that figured 

 in the plate." On the basis of Dewey's statement, it seems reason- 

 able to assume that the tooth figured by DeKay, may represent a 

 find from without the State, or if from the State it was not from 

 the Perinton locality. Possibly the tooth may have been obtained 

 from Bishop's Museum at Rochester, which had mammoth teeth 

 among its collections. At least it is not clear how the tooth figured 

 by DeKay, came to be recorded from Perinton. Further reference 

 to this tooth will be given under mammoths (page 70). It may be 

 here remarked that among the mastodon localities given by DeKay, 

 he lists (page 104) " Perrinton, near Rochester, Monroe county." 

 Hall 45 throws no further light on the character of these remains 



Nat. Hist. N. Y.; Zool. 1842, pt 1, p. 101; pi. 32, fig. 2. 

 Nat. Hist. N. Y., Geol., pt 4, 1843, p. 364. 



