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has figured and described this specimen, which is now in the 

 American Museum, New York City. The jaws retained ten teeth; 

 three each on the right side above and below and two on the left. 

 The tusks of the upper jaw, said to have been perfect when found, 

 disintegrated soon after exposure to the air. Traces of the sockets 

 for tusks in the lower jaw are present, more pronounced on the 

 right side. The head and other fragments were covered first by a 

 layer of gravel, second by marl, third a layer of peat. 



The Warren Mastodon 



63 1845, August 12. Newburgh. This skeleton, first described 

 by A. J. Prime, 78 came from the farm of Nathaniel Brewster, near 

 Newburgh. It is the finest and most complete specimen ever col- 

 lected and the subject of an elaborate account by Dr John C. War- 

 ren, 79 its one time owner. With the exception of a few toe bones 

 and vertebrae of the tail, the skeleton is complete. Both upper 

 tusks and the lower tusk of the right side are present, the former 

 measuring 8 feet 6 inches in length. 



The soil at the bottom of the small pond or bog in which the 

 bones were found, was composed of the following materials: (i) a 

 layer of peat about 2 feet thick; (2) a layer of moss described as 

 red, about 1 foot thick; (3) a layer of shell marl in which most of 

 the bones were embedded. Some of the bones of the limbs extended 

 below the layer of marl and were embedded in mud. The Warren 

 mastodon is mounted and on exhibition in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York. 



64 1845. Hamptonburg. Remains were found, "... on 

 the farm of Jesse C. Cleve, Esq., in Hamptonburgh, about 12 miles 

 southeast of Montgomery." 80 



65 Date? Goshen. Mastodon remains were found in the town 

 of Goshen sometime before 1846 but the exact locality and circum- 

 stances of the discovery are not known. 80 



66 Before 1850. Near Newburgh. A large tooth from New- 

 burgh about 3 miles from the Warren mastodon locality was de- 

 scribed and figured by Warren (ibid. pi. 10). 



67 Date? Near Newburgh. Warren also mentions (page 173), 

 " a specimen of silicified os femoris, 3^ feet long. It was found 

 in Orange county, New York, not far from Newburgh. It is almost 



7S Amer Quar. Jour. Agr. and' Sci., 1845, 2 '.203-12, pi. 4. 



79 Warren, The Mastodon Giganteus of North America, il 



30 Eager, p. 73. 



