MASTODONS, MAMMOTHS AND OTHER PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS S7 



Another account of this mastodon is given by Mitchill 3 and he 

 states that the fatty substance contained in the cavities of the teeth, 

 mentioned by Suffern, no longer remained when the teeth reached 

 him. Two figures of one of the teeth are also given by Mitchill. 



Schenectady County 



S6 1914. South Schenectady. In this year Richard Ribley 

 found and brought to the State Museum for identification, a fairly 

 well-preserved, medium-sized tooth of a mastodon which he had 

 obtained from the extensive gravel deposits at South Schenectady. 

 The gravel deposits at that place are of delta origin and were laid 

 down near the western margin of glacial Lake Albany by the flood 

 of waters, which coursed eastward through the Mohawk valley and 

 carried all the outflow waters of glacial Lake Dawson and its 

 successor early Iroquois. This was before the latter lake had 

 reached its maximum extent and before the greater Mohawk had 

 carved the many potholes in the rocks at Cohoes, 4 in one of which 

 the Cohoes mastodon was found. 



Seneca County 



87 Lodi. Among the collections of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, there is a tooth which carries this label, " Tooth 

 of Mastodon (5th and 6th) found at Lodi, Seneca Co., N. Y. 

 Presented by Wm. Nevius, N. Y." No information is available as 

 to date, character of deposits or the depth at which the tooth was 

 found. The town of Lodi borders Seneca lake and Lodi village is 

 2]A miles east of the lake at an elevation of 1045 f ee t, and a mile 

 or more from the divide between .Seneca and Cayuga lakes. 



Steuben County 



88 1874. Wayland. The following account, relating to the 

 contents of a mastodon's stomach, is printed in the Proceedings of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History for 1874 (page 91) : 



i; Mr Charles Stodder exhibited, with the microscope, a slide 

 showing some of the contents of a mastodon's stomach. The ma- 



3 Observations on the Geology of North America, p. 390; in Essay on 

 the Theory of the Earth by M. Cuvier, New York, 1826. In the text 

 Mitchill states that the illustrations of the tooth are on plate 2, figures 1 

 and 2. The copy examined by the writers has three press-numbered plates, 

 VI, VII and VIII, and the tooth is illustrated on plate VI, figures 1 and 4. 

 The remains are also described in Godman's American Natural History, 

 1836, 2: 77. 



i See Stoller, "Glacial Geology of Schenectady Quadrangle," N. Y. State 

 Mus. Bui. 154, 191 1, p. 16, 34. 



