72 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



E. columbi, but according to the definition of the species by 

 Prof. H. F. Osborn, 33 it belongs to his recently described E. j e f- 

 fersonii. 



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Cortland County 



4 1847. Homer. According to the original description by 

 Woodworth, 34 the tooth (plates 14, 15), was " found in the bank of 

 a small stream, about 2 miles north-west of the village of Homer. 

 The stream had washed away a portion of the bank, and left a part 

 of the tooth exposed, lying about 20 inches below the surface, in an 

 alluvial formation, resting on a base of gravel." 



In the Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (1848, 

 page 200), E. Emmons gives a figure of the Homer tooth. He 

 states : " But to those who have marl beds, to identify its remains 

 a tooth (fig. 24) of this interesting animal is given in the margin. 

 It is a reduced figure of one found in the superficial deposits of 

 New York." The Homer tooth, which is in the State Museum, 

 has been identified by Dr O. P. Hay as E. c o 1 u mi b i. 



Erie County 



5 1921. Buffalo. (E. primigenius.) In November 192 1, 

 a large tooth of a mammoth was obtained at a depth of 50 feet 

 while dredging for sand in the middle of the Niagara river opposite 

 Black Rock, Buffalo. The tooth is in the Museum of the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural Sciences, and Director William L. Bryant writes 

 that the tooth belonged to the northern mammoth. Three or four 

 other teeth were observed by the workmen of the sand dredge, but 

 only one was saved by one of the laborers, whose curiosity was 

 aroused and who took the tooth to the museum. 



Madison County 



6 1825. Chittenango. (E. primigenius.) Some remains 

 of a mammoth were discovered during the excavation of the Erie 

 canal, which was completed in 1825, or possibly they were found 



33 Am. Mus. Novitates, no. 41, July 1922, p. 11. 



81 Samuel Woodworth, Amer. Jour, of Agri. and Sci., 1847. 6:31-37, fig-. 1. 

 Description of a Tooth of the Elephas Americanus. See also the following: 



1854. Caleb Green, 7th Annual Rep't, State Cabinet Nat. Hist., appendix 

 A, p. 16; letter to John Gebhard jr, states tooth was found in summer of 

 1847. 



1859. Twelfth Annual Rep't, State Cabinet Nat. Hist., p. 109. Records 

 gift of the tooth to the State Museum from trustees of Homer Academy. 



1918. J. M. Clarke, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 106, p. 47. Of the two teeth 

 mentioned by Clarke, only the one figured by Woodworth can be identified 

 with certainty. 



