MASTODONS, MAMMOTHS AND OTHER PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS yi 



RECORDS OF MAMMOTH REMAINS FOUND IN NEW 

 YORK STATE ARRANGED BY COUNTIES 



Cattaraugus County 



i 1889. Olean. About the year 1889 a molar tooth was found, 

 with a light covering of soil over it, on the edge of a swamp near 

 Olean creek, a short distance above its junction with the Allegany 

 river. The junction of the two streams is at the city of Olean and 

 the tooth was found at an elevation of 1430 feet. Measurements 

 of the tooth show that it is about 3 inches wide, 9 inches long, about 

 yy 2 inches in height and weighs 5 pounds. The writers are indebted 

 to Mrs Katherine E. Bradley of Olean for the above information, 

 and mention is made of the tooth in her historic sketches of " The 

 Olean Rock City" (1920, p. 20). Only a photograph of this tooth 

 has been seen by the writers and it is provisionally identified as 

 E. primigenius. Further study may show that it is E. boreus = 

 E. j e f f e r s o n i i, since the width of the ridge plates appear to 

 agree quite closely with that species. 



Chemung County 



2 1872. Chemung narrows. In a letter dated December 30, 

 1872, Prof. J. Dorman Steele, noted teacher and author of Steele's 

 Natural Science series of textbooks, wrote to Dr James Hall as 

 follows : 



A man at the Chemung Narrows has found a tooth of the mammoth 

 (not mastodon), very fine, weighing over 7 pounds and 13 inches in length. 

 I have had a talk with him today. A neighbor has one also about the same 

 size. . . . It is probable that there are more to be found in the same 

 spot as they have already picked up pieces of the jaw-bone. 



A portion of a tooth from Chemung Narrows is among the col- 

 lections of the State Museum and is recorded as an accession in 

 the 37th Report of the State Museum for 1883 (1884), page 28. 

 It is not known whether this specimen represents an additional find 

 to that mentioned in Steele's letter or whether it is a broken part 

 of one of the two teeth mentioned. 



3 Date? Elmira. A catalogue in the American Museum of 

 Natural History has the following entry : " E. primigenius. River 

 gravels, Elmira, N. Y. Presented by D. W. Payn. Part of a 

 molar." Further details concerning the finding of this specimen 

 are lacking. Dr O. P. Hay 32 recorded this tooth under the name 



Science, 1919, 49:378. 



