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the term G-iganteus has been given and principally employed by Cuvier ; as 

 it lias been adopted by Owen and others, and almost exclusively sanctioned 

 by American palaeontologists, we think it most convenient and judicious 

 to adhere to this appellation. 



" Pennant first ventured, in 1793, to designate the American fossil animal, in a systematic 

 work, as a species of elephant, by the name of E. Americanus; and Blumenbach, in 1797, 

 erected it into a kind of genus, under the name of Mammut Ohioticum, which he briefly charac- 

 terized by the form of the teeth. Cuvier, in his earliest memoir on the elephant, described it 

 " also as a species of this genus under the specific designation applied by Pennant of E. Ameri- 

 canus, for which Adrian Camper, entertaining the same opinion of its generic relations, proposed 

 the substitution of E. macrocephalus. But in his second extended and elaborate memoir, 

 published in 1805, which formed the groundwork of what he has written on the subject in 

 the ' Ossemens Fossiles,' Cuvier separated the elephants with mammillated molars from the 

 ordinary forms with lamelliform molars, and united the former into a genus which he designated 

 Mastodon, taking the North American species, under the name of M. giganteum, as the type." — 

 Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, by Hugh Falconer, M.D., F.K.S., and P. T. Cautley, F.G.S., 

 pp. 17, 18. 



Dr. Falconer has decided in favor of substituting the epithet Ohioticus for Giganteus, 

 basing this conclusion upon priority of use. 



