MAMMOTHS AM) MAST()I)()\S 9 



exhibit. 'Vhv riMnarkahlc I'lvslmcss of tluvsc rcMiiaiiis is due to their hiirial 

 ill soil j)erinaiiently frozen ever since their enlonil)nient . They are j)r()l)- 

 al)ly many tliousand years ohl. There is no reason lo hehcNc that the 

 nianiniolh is still living in Alaska or has })eeonie extinct within the last 

 few centnries. \'arions stories ha\'e a|)|)eare(l in the nia<ia/,ines and news- 



Af^er Ofsborn 



Fig. 3. Molar teeth of extinct American elephants. Above, 



the mammoth, E. primigenius; middle, Columbian 



elephant, E. columbi; below. Imperial 



elephant, E. imperator. All x ^. 



papers of the survival of the animal in the more remote parts of the 

 territory, and its being seen or even captured by white men. All of them 

 may be set down as purely mythical, and the alleged tradition among 



iQuackenbush, L. S., 1909, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. xxvi, pp 87-130, pU. xvii-xxv 



