OCCURRENCE ON EAST COAST. Oil 
from which the mammoth, Indian elephant, and Z. armeniacus have been derived. 
id . . ~ . . . a 
The stump is wonderfully like some of the mammoth’s in my collection, but it is 
narrower. 
“« (Signed ) W. Boyp DawkxIns.”’ 
“* PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19th, 1882. 
“T have never seen a tooth which presents all the peculiarities of this one, but 
each of its characters can be found separate in different teeth of the mammoth. 
It is probably a last deciduous molar of a variety between the typical H. primige- 
nius and the smooth-plated E. colwmbi. 
“ (Signed) E. D. Copr.”’ 
Elephas columbi of Dr Hugh Falconer, to which this molar belongs, 
according to Professors W. Boyd Dawkins and E. D. Cope, has been found 
on the Pacific coast of Alaska.* Falconer only knew of its remains in 
Ficure 1.—Molar of Elephas columbi from Long Island, Hudson Bay. (4% natural size.) 
the more southern of the United States and Mexico; but the present 
discovery, and that of a similar molar, near Edmonton, N. W. T., taken 
in connection with its occurrence in Alaska, shows that its range in North 
America was even more extensive than that of E. primigenius. Consider- 
ing how very rare the discovery of elephantine remains of any kind has 
hitherto been over all that great portion of the continent between Bering 
strait and the vicinity of lake Erie, we may reasonably expect that among 
* Bulletin of the U. 8S. Geol. Survey, no. 84, 1892. 
