MASTODONS, MAMMOTHS AND OTHER PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS JJ 



Ontario County 



ii 1847. Geneva. (Species?) In the account of the Homer 

 mammoth tooth by Samuel Woodworth, 43 Principal of Homer 

 Academy, he states, " we possess a tooth or cast of a tooth of the 

 elephant from Seneca lake near Geneva." As Geneva is on Seneca 

 lake, the above tooth is undoubtedly the one referred to 11 years 

 later by E. Emmons, 44 who states that " a tooth belonging to the 

 elephant was taken from the beach upon Seneca lake, New York." 

 The figure given by Emmons agrees with the Homer specimen, and 

 as we have not seen the Geneva specimen or a figure of it we are 

 unable to place it specifically. 



Wayne County 



12 1908. Williamson. (E. primigenius.) The mam- 

 moth tooth from the town of Williamson, in the museum of the 

 University of Rochester, has been identified by Dr O. P. Hay as 

 the lower left last molar. The tooth is practically complete and 

 dark in color, having the appearance of having been found in swamp 

 or muck material. The specimen was received at the museum about 

 1908. The town of Williamson lies northeast of Macedon, where 

 mastodon teeth were found, and the higher and closing level of the 

 Iroquois beach passes through the town in an east and west direc- 

 tion. Prof. H. L. Fairchild has informed the writers that the 

 locality is northeast from the village of Williamson and that the 

 tooth came from the province of glacial Lake Iroquois, a short dis- 

 tance north of the beach of this glacial lake. 



13 1910. Clyde. (E. primigenius). During the con- 

 struction of the state Barge canal, a tooth of a mammoth was found 

 near Clyde in October 19 10. The tooth was on exhibition for a 

 short time in one of the store windows at Lyons and was presented 

 to the Museum by William B. Landreth, deputy state engineer. A 

 letter from B. F. Failing, resident engineer at Lyons, written shortly 

 after the tooth was found, states, " The mammoth tooth was found 

 while excavating for lock 26, Barge canal, 23/2 miles east of Clyde, 

 N. Y. It was found about 100 feet from the Clyde river and 22 feet 

 underground in a layer of sand and clay, on top of gravel which 



u Amer, Jour, of Agri. and Sci., 1847, 6:35. 



** Rep't of North Carolina Geol. Sur., 1858, p. 200. 



