MASTODONS, MAMMOTHS AND OTHER PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS 39 



or mammoth found 12 feet below the surface of the ground in 

 gravel at the corner of Charlotte boulevard and Miller street, Roch- 

 ester. The specimen was presented by Sigurd Bo in January, 19 13, 

 having been found but a short time previously. No other remains 

 are believed to have been present in the immediate vicinity, at least 

 no others were found, and we are with no clue for the generic de- 

 termination of the specimen. The above information was given by 

 Prof. G. H. Chadwick to one of the writers when he visited the 

 Rochester Museum a few years ago. 



42 1 91 8. Pitts ford. Prof. H. L. Fairchild has recently reported 

 the discovery of the foot bones of a mastodon or mammoth in a 

 small swamp near Pitts ford in which there is marl overlaid by muck. 

 It is intended to carry on excavations in hopes of obtaining other 

 parts of the animal. 



New York County 



43 1840? Manhattan. The following account of a find, sup- 

 posedly that of a mastodon, in New York City is quoted from 

 Issachar Cozzens, in "A Geological History of the New York or 

 Manhattan Island," published in 1843 (page 75): "The cellular 

 part of a large bone, probably of the mastodon, was found in dig- 

 ging the cellar of J. M. Bradhurst's house about 10 feet below the 

 present surface, in Broadway near Franklin street." 



44 1885. Inwood. Mastodon or mammoth. Of this tusk Prof. 

 R. P. Whitfield 50 writes as follows : " In April 1885, Elisha A. 

 Howland, then principal of grammar school No. 68, at 128th street, 

 between Sixth and Seventh avenues, brought and donated to the 

 museum the lower extremity of a mastodon tusk, nearly 15 inches 

 long by 4 in its greatest diameter, which had been found shortly 

 before at Inwood, N. Y., while cutting a ditch through a peat bed 

 near the Presbyterian Church at that place. This fragment shows 

 fresh breaking at the upper end, and was undoubtedly much longer 

 when first found." 



45 1885. Dyckman's creek. Mastodon or mammoth. In 1885 

 a tusk was found in excavating for the Harlem ship canal. An ac- 

 count of this find as communicated to Science 51 by R. P. Whitfield 

 of the American Museum of Natural History includes the follow- 

 ing statements : 



The specimen was found at a depth of 16 feet below mean low water, at 



the eastern end of Dyckman's creek, at its junction with the Harlem river. 



The portion of the tusk preserved and received at the museum is nearly 



50 Science, v. 18, Dec. 18, 1891. 

 61 V. 18, Dec. 18, 1891. 



