6 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
Not seen; this notice, from ‘‘ Allen’s History of the American Bison,” p. 
505, foot-note; mentions buffalo as “innumerable” northwestward of 
the Ohio river, from the mouth of the Kanawha, far down the Ohio. 
1788. May, Cot. Joun. Journal and letters of, etc. < Hist. & Philos. 
Soc. of Ohio, new series, vol. i., pp. 81-83. Mention of buffalo 
on the Maskingum. 
Not seen; title quoted from “‘ Allen’s History of the American Bison,” 
p- 505, foot-note. 
1808. AsHe, THomas. Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the 
purpose of exploring the rivers Allegheny, Monongahela. Ohio 
and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition 
of their banks and vicinity. By Thomas Ashe, Esq. In 
three volumes, vols. i. [ii.-iii.], London. Printed for Richard 
Phillips, Bridge street, by John Abraham, Clement’s lane. 
1808. 
Vol. I.—Reference, p. 95, ef. seqg., to abundance of buffalo at Onondago 
Lake, Pa. (attracted by Salt springs). Vol. IIl.—Deer near Marietta, 
Ohio, p. 23. There are various other references bearing on Ohio. 
1838. Atwater, Cates. A history of the State of Ohio, natural and 
civil. by Caleb Atwater, A.M., member of the American 
Antiquarian Society; of the Rhode Island Historical Society; 
of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York; and of the 
American Geological Society; author of Western Antiquities; 
Tour to Prairie DuChien, ete. Second edition: Cincinnati; 
stereotyped by Glazen & Shepard. Title page not dated. 
There must be a first edition somewhere, but we have been unable to 
find it. Under head of “ Wild Animals,” ete., pp. 67-70, mentions bear, 
black and yeilow wolf, and the panther and the black and gray fox;” 
also beaver, otter, elk and bison, along with the common species: 
1838. Briees, JR.. C. Report of (on counties of Wood, Crawford, 
Athens, Hocking and Tuscarawas.) < (Second Annual Report 
on the Geological Survey of the State of Ohio, by W. W. 
Mather, principal geologist, and the several assistants. 
Columbus. Samuel Medary, printer to the State, 1838, pp. 
109-154, 
Contains references, with weights and measurements (pp. 127-129), to 
various bones of a Mastodon found near Bucyrus in 1838. 
1838. Foster, J. W. Report of (on counties of Muskingum, Licking 
and Franklin), < Op. cit. 
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