134 ELEPHANTS 
Mountain region and the Coast Range to the extreme limits 
of northern and western Alaska. In Alaska the tusks and 
bones of this species are quite common. In northern Siberia 
mammoth tusks have for many years been so common that 
they have formed a staple article of commerce. 
In the caves of southern France and Spain there are many 
drawings of Mammoths (as well as of aurochs, wild boars, 
horses and reindeer), crudely executed, to, be sure, but so 
thoroughly characteristic as to be quite unmistakable. In 
the cavern at Font-de-Gaume there is a strong drawing of a 
procession of four Mammoths and other animals. Some of 
these drawings were made perhaps forty thousand years ago, 
and they are well preserved. (See American Museum Journal, 
December, 1912.) 
Near Doylestown, Pennsylvania, there was found in 1872 
a stone which bore on one of its sides a crude engraving of 
an elephantine animal being attacked by men. This is known 
to history as “the Lenape stone.” 
Truly ‘“‘there were giants in those days,” and primitive 
man struggled with them for the survival of the fittest. 
LIVING SPECIES OF ELEPHANTS 
Of the elephant species living to-day we will mention the 
three that are most important. 
Tue Supan Arrican Evepuant (Elephas oxyotis) is one of 
the largest of the seven well-recognized species of elephants 
inhabiting Africa to-day. As its name implies, it is a habitant 
of the great region in central East Africa vaguely known as 
“the Sudan.” The two half-grown specimens in the New York 
