PREFACE 



The interest awakened by the discoveries and conclu- 

 sions of the working geologist is increasing every year. 

 Many of the facts which would be' acceptable to general 

 readers are placed beyond their reach, being recorded only 

 in technical works or else in the memoirs of learned socie- 

 ties. The compiler of this little book believes that a work 

 of this kind will be welcomed by the multitude. It is a 

 subject which must needs be of general interest. The 

 usual hand-books on geology give but a meagre account 

 of these colossal proboscidians, which serve only to arouse 

 an interest without being able to gratify it. 



In tracing out the evidences of the co-existence of man 

 with the mammoth and mastodon, it is not attempted to 

 prove the great antiquity of man. The compiler has 

 already done that in another work, entitled a A Manual 

 of the Antiquity of Man." 



• In the preparation of this work I have relied principally 

 on Dr. J. C. Warren's "Mastodon Giganteus," and have 

 freely used LyelPs "Principles of Geology," Mantell'a 

 "Wonders of Geology" and "Fossils of the British Mu- 

 seum," Meunier's "Life in the Primeval World," "The 

 American Naturalist," Foster's "Pre-Historic Races," 

 Figuier's "World Before the Deluge," Leidy's "Extinct 

 Yertebate Fauna of the Western Territories," Lieut. 

 Wheeler's Report of Surveys West of 100th Meridian, 

 Vol. IV; Southall's "Epoch of the Mammoth," besides 

 quite a number of other works. 



