Man and the Mastoden in Missouri. 887 
(where it was studied by Miiller); and after another ‘‘ Hydrar- 
gos”’ had been obtained by Dr. Koch (in 1848), in the vicinity 
of * Washington Old Court House, Washington Co., Alabama,” 
and had. been transported (1) to Dresden (where, through 
‘eight months’ faithful labor,” it was set up by the 6th of 
to Munich, because “the only saloon disposable was too 
small for the exhibition ;” and, finally, had come back to its 
native country, ‘‘after it had established its just fame in 
Europe” as one of the ‘“ Hydrachen,” and been put on ex- 
hibition in New Orleans.* 
urther, a note on the bones at St. Louis collected by Mr. 
Koch was presented to the American Philosophical Society, in 
October, 1840, by Dr. W. E. Horner, and an abstract from the 
Proceedings of that Society is cited in vol. xl, (1841) of this 
Journal. 
It is evident from these documents that Dr. Koch was a man 
of enterprise, ‘‘an indefatigable collector.” The credit is 
also due him of having performed a great service to science 
by his collections; for these included one of the best skele- 
tons of the Mastodon that has been unearthed and two nearly 
complete skeletons of Zeuglodon, besides portions of other 
Mastodon and Zeuglodon individuals. Dr. Koch’s “St. Louis 
useum” contained, in 1840, according to Dr Horner, “200 
nated by the proprietor (Dr. Koch) Missourtum Kochit. 
The two cases of the discovery of human remains along with 
those of the Mastodon, mentioned by Dr. Koch, are describe 
in the pamphlets published in London and elsewhere abroad ; in 
the Transactions of the St. Louis Academy, vol. i, p. 61, 1857; 
* The skeleton was on exhibition in St. Louis as early as 1855 or 1856, as stated 
i ; ere, as I learn . Lapham, 
to the Museum (Curiosity shop); and thence, later, taken to Wood’s Museum in 
Chicago, where it ended its remarkable career in the great fire of 1871. 
