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stance, at first supposed to be a stone or piece of wood imbedded 
in the earth; but upon digging farther, it was discovered to be 
the remains of a mastodon, 
ne bones were in a fair state of preservation, and exhibited a 
dark, spongy, porous appearance. One of the tusks, which was 
bro oving it from i 
when aan seer, nearly ten feet in _—— and twenty nine inches 
and the main portion of the ea rie are now being lifted from the 
tithy and will probably be added to the collection of fossils now 
being made by our state Geologist, Professor Worthen 
: The part of this huge creature which was exhibited i in our office 
a 
ference. It contained, in a fine state of preservation, one of the 
great jaw-teeth.— Daily State hr of Springfield, LIttinois, 
Sept. 7. Received from C. L. 
4. Description of the Cavern alesiaetinal, and its organic Con- 
tents ; by Professor OwEN. Part I, Human and Equine Remains. 
55 : : 
brain corresponds that of uneducated Europeans of Celtic 
origin, Sea exceeds ies of the average Ausinelian aboriginals.” 
Some of the bones accompanying the human remains—those of 
r 
1g 
dranghtsmen “A the cave-dwelling people, we thus learn that the 
horse of the era, Hguus spelcus, had short pointed ears, and that 
the stallions ‘ad beard-like hairs; and from the antler of a rein- 
deer, found in another cavern, that of La Madelaine, in Dordogne, 
we have the additional fact that the tails of these early horses 
were short and furnished with long hairs to their base, having 
“cauda undique setosa,” instead of “ — extremitate ‘setosa,” 
a fact repeated seven times on the antle e horse is of the 
she ee to ane sheer ge nus Eguus, es not to that womgnd 
P. 
“No sitiatactory evidence of an aboriginal feral Hguus caballus 
has ae been obtained by the Naturalist. No a of such 
exists in any Museum. The dou bts expres <1 aap bd Forster and 
