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adult animal of the same species, subsequently disin- 

 terred at Big-bone-lick ; these are of a deep black 

 color, of a dense and solid structure, like the soundest 

 of the Mastodon bones. 



Still more recently, a large collection of fossil bones 

 obtained from Big-bone-lick, have been exhibited in 

 the city of New York ; among them were observed, the 

 jaw, teeth, clavicle, and a tibia of the right leg of the 

 Megalonyx laqueatus, the same that are described and 

 figured in the American Monthly Journal of Geology 

 and Natural Science, of Philadelphia. 



Place in the Geological series. Contemporaneous 

 with the Big-bone-lick fossils, and probably also, with 

 bones of the caverns of Germany, England, France &c; 

 but judging from the appearance of the Megalonyx 

 bones from White Cave, Kentucky, they are still more 

 recent than those of any extinct fossil species hitherto 

 discovered, with the probable exception of the " Elk of 

 Ireland." I have seen, in the museum of the Dublin 

 Society of Natural History, the lower portion of the 

 fore leg of a cervine animal, with the skin, hair, and 

 hoof, simply dessicated, found in the peat bogs of Ire- 

 land, along with the bones of the fossil elk, of which 

 animal it was supposed to form a part ; it bears the 

 closest analogy to the same part of the North American 

 moose deer, (Cekvus alces, Linn.) 



Most of the original specimens of the fossil bones of 

 this extinct species are in the cabinet of Mr. J. P. 

 Wetherill, deposited in the Hall of the Academy of 



