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99 1884. Perry. " The Museum of the Wyoming Pioneer and 

 Historical Association at the Silver Lake Assembly, contains two 

 teeth [of the mastodon] found on the farm of William Olin, town 

 of Perry, in the year indicated." 25 



100 1886. Attica. The following summary with references to 

 the Attica mastodon or mammoth has been published by Clarke. 26 

 " Small tusk, ribs and other bones found in digging trench on 

 Genesee street, in unlaminated clay at a depth of 2 to 3 feet, over- 

 laid by clayey muck and loam. Beneath these bones were found 

 several pieces of charcoal. 26 * In another part of the same swamp, 

 under 4 feet of muck and 1 foot below level of the bones, was found 

 a considerable quantity of charcoal with broken pottery. Clarke. 

 N. Y. State Geol. 6th An. Rep't, 1887, p. 34; 7th An. Rcp't in N. Y. 

 State Mus. 41st An. Rcp't, 18S8, p. 388." See also Geological 

 Magazine (3) 1889, 6:192. Of the above references, the 41st 

 Museum Report is best as it contains a cut showing ground plan 

 and vertical section of the locality. 



MAMMOTHS 



Of the one hundred and fifteen mastodon and mammoth remains 

 listed from New York State, fifteen have been definitely determined 

 as those of the mammoth. With the exception of the Queensbury, 

 Warren county, tooth, all the mammoth remains have been found 

 in central New York and westward. The fifteen mammoth finds 

 recorded in the list that follows are all represented by teeth, and 

 thus generic determination is positively established. In six of the 

 fifteen finds the teeth were accompanied by bones, thus indicating 

 the possible presence of the whole animal. 



Among the list of one hundred specimens recorded under mas- 

 todons, about thirty lack positive generic determination. Twenty 

 of these are from southeastern New York, which thus far has re- 

 vealed no mammoth remains. It is then reasonable to assume that 

 nearly all, if actually not all, of the generically undetermined speci- 

 mens from southeastern New York belong to the mastodon. It is 

 to be regretted that the terms " elephant," " mastodon " and " mam- 

 moth " have often been used and are still used in a sense that tends 

 to confusion. Both mastodons and mammoths are " elephant like," 

 and moreover the word " mammoth " may be used either as an 



26 Clarke, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 140, 1910, p. 46. 



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



a * a See account of charcoal and charred wood found with cones of trees 

 now extinct on Staten Island, under description of the New Dorp, Rich- 

 mond county, mastodon. 



