16 THE MASTODON. 



the "Missourium, or Leviathan of the Missouri." This he 

 placed on exhibition in London, and soon afterwards sold 

 it to the Trustees of the British Museum, where it was 

 overhauled and properly mounted by Professor Owen. 

 An illustration of this skeleton, as it appeared in the 



Figure 3. 



Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus fro ji Missouri, now in the 

 British Museum. 



Museum, is given in Fig. 3. It has been suggested that the 

 two scapulae now forming a part of this skeleton, and the 

 two detached ones, are in reality the bones of the mam- 

 moth ; and Dr. Koch may have dug up the remains of both 

 these animals from the same deposit. 



The skeleton so minutely described by Dr. J. C. Warren, 

 in his work entitled "Mastodon Giganteus," was discovered 

 near Newburgh, New York, in the summer of 1845. The 

 spot where the skeleton was found is situated in a small 



