THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Vol. L. 



1. Notes on the Occurrence of Mammoth-remains in the Yukon 

 District of Canada and in Alaska. By George M. Dawson, 

 C.M.G., LL.D., E.R.S., F.G.S., Assistant Director of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of Canada. (Read November 8th, 1893.) 



These notes, relating primarily to the occurrence of remains of the 

 Mammoth in the geographical valley of the Yukon River, are the 

 result of a correspondence between Mr. H. Moody of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway Co., the Assistant Secretary of the Geological 

 Society, and the writer, respecting statements which had reached 

 Mr. Moody from a friend resident in the extreme north-western 

 part of the Dominion of Canada. It has been suggested that a 

 brief notice of the facts in this connexion, so far as these are 

 known, may be of some interest to the Geological Society. 



The original discovery of bones of the Mammoth in the Yukon 

 region is due to Mr. Robert Campbell, an officer in the service of 

 the Hudson's Bay Company, who between 1840 and 1852 travelled 

 through and established trading-posts in the upper valley of the 

 Yukon, and was the first white man to penetrate this remote part 

 of North America. 



In a brief account of his explorations, printed at Winnipeg in 

 1885, Campbell writes: — "I saw the bones, heads, and horns of 

 Buffaloes [Musk-Oxen ?] ; but this animal had become extinct before 

 our visit, as had also some species of Elephant, whose remains were 

 found in various swamps. I forwarded an Elephant's thigh-bone 

 to the British Museum, where it may still be seen ". l 



1 'The Discovery and Exploration of the Yukon (Pellv) River,' WinninoLT, 

 1885. 



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