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as practicable there are now added the following items which have 

 either escaped notice or are more recent discoveries. 

 1884 Perry, Wyoming co. The Museum of the Wyoming Pio- 

 neer and Historical Association at the Silver Lake Assembly, 

 contains two teeth found on the farm of William Olin, town 

 of Perry, in the year indicated. 

 1908 Kill Buck, Cattaraugus co. A single tusk has been reported 

 as found at this date near the banks of the Great Valley 

 creek. Details are wanting. 

 1908 Batavia, Genesee co. Discovery of a part of a skeleton on 

 Willow street in this village has been reported. The bones 

 found consisted of a few ribs, vertebrae and leg bones and it 

 is stated that a jaw bearing teeth was alsoi uncovered. 

 1908 Manchester, Ontario co. A tooth on the property of 

 Leonard S. Lyke. 

 Bison. Some teeth obtained in the postglacial clays of the 

 Hudson valley a few miles below Albany, in deposits commonly 

 regarded as laid down during that stage of the Mohawk drainage 

 of the Great Lakes, termed Lake Albany, have beeni identified by 

 Dr O. P. Hay as those of the bison. Although entirely exact data 

 concerning the date and location of this discovery are wanting, 

 these teeth have come into the museum within the writer's recol- 

 lection and have been kept in association with a series of other 

 mammal relics from this vicinity. The occurrence is of interest 

 and the only instance we can now refer to of the presence of the 

 buffalo in eastern New York during this epoch of postglacial 

 waters. 



Moose. The Barge canal prism northwest of Waterford, 

 Saratoga co., passes along side the site of a buried Mohawk 

 channel. In the course of construction of foundations for guide 

 piers between the proposed locks a number of deep potholes have 

 been encountered, similar in date and origin to, and only a mile 

 and a half away from, those on the Mohawk at Cohoes, in one 

 of which the Cohoes mastodon, now in the museum, was found in 

 1866. The largest pothole encountered at Waterford measured 

 16' by 20' in diameter and was excavated to a depth of 14' ; no 

 attempt was made to reach the bottom of the hole. The rock 

 surface at the top of the potholes lay buried under 10' oi laminated 

 clays (Lake Albany clay). At 14' vertebrae and ribs were found 

 which have been identified by Dr F. A. Lucas as those of the 

 moose. With them in the clays, were shells of the genus Planor- 

 bis, moss (Sphagnum), wood and cones. Tlie cones have been 



