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mutilated, and a part may not improbably belong to the 

 elephant. 

 Fifteen ribs, more or less broken. 



Large sacrum, with portions of ossa innominata attached. 

 Two portions of other sacra. 



Five scapulae, mutilated. Four retain the condyle. 



Seven humeri, all mutilated, and very imperfect. One wants 

 the epiphyses, being from a young and small animal. Ano- 

 ther consists merely of the condyles, others are no more than 

 the shaft of the bone, with both ends broken off. 



Three ulnae, of various sizes. 



A radius, lower end broken off. 



Fourteen or fifteen small bones of the fore feet, among which 

 two cuneiform, and other carpal, and several metacarpal. 



A very large and nearly entire os innominatum. 



Two others, less entire, and appearing to belong together. 



Three others, consisting of little more than the acetabulum, 

 with the thyroid foramen. 



A femur, nearly entire, thirty-eight inches long. 



Four others, more mutilated, some of larger size than the pre- 

 ceding. 



Five other considerable portions of the same bone. 

 A patella. 



Very large tibia, twenty-nine inches long. 

 Three others, smaller. 



Another, of a young individual, the epiphyses wanting. 

 Two astragali. 

 Four calcanea. 



Immediately after Mr. Finnell discontinued, on procuring 

 the bones just described, Mr. Bullock commenced digging near 

 the same spot. He obtained many mastodon bones, as well as 

 others ; but as his collection has never been examined by any 

 anatomist, I have not the means of ascertaining which, or how 

 many there were, belonging to this animal. His letters to Mr. 

 Featherstonhaugh mention, among others, " the ruins of a very 

 large head, showing the interior structure in a very beautiful 

 manner, with a large portion of the top of the skull." 



n. Fossil Elephant. (Elephas primigenius. Blumenbach.) 

 Grinders belonging to a species of elephant, which, in the 



