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spoke of the flora. E. S. Morse described the Indian relics found in the 
mounds on the neck, also those which he had found at Goose Island, in 
Portland harbor. He concluded his remarks by describing the mann 
in which certain of the ee animals eat, ý Mustrating the process with 
figures on the blackboard. 
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF ScrEN Noces. Oct. 8, 1867.—Dr. J. J. Jewell, of 
the Lake Tunnel, read a report in relation the geology of the Chicago 
Lake Tunnel. 
Dr. Meyers, of Fort Wayne, Ind., then described the finding of the 
bones of the Mastodon, presented by him to the academy. He said the 
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found by the farmer, as well as the right to make farther explorations. 
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skeleton of the calf and one of the adults are ine complete, and cap 
ble of being mounted. They lay at the depth of four or five feet, in a 
stratum of peat overlaying blue clay, containing naaran shells. d 
peat among the bones were found fragments of boughs and branches 
several kinds of wood, in a good state of preservation, some of which had 
been gnawed by the beaver. The spot at which the bones were found 
is a small basin-shaped depression in the middle of a corn-field, W 
was formerly a willow swamp, and has but recently been sufficiently we 
drained to allow of cultivation. It is a region where traces of ancit 
lakes and beaver-dams are particularly abundant. 
The size of the adult mastodon has not yet been estimated. 
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will not fall far short of this in dimensions, 
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Popular Science Review arterly). Londi à anuary, 1868. 
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