/^N MONDAY, November 17th, 1884, workmen engaged in 
digging a trench in a meadow on the farm of William U. May- 
nard, in Northborough, near the Shrewsbury line, came upon some 
teeth and other remains of a huge animal, which rested upon the 
bed rock, seven or eight feet below the surface. Mr. Maynard was 
notified, and further search was made, which resulted in bringing 
to light more fragments of bone, several teeth, and portions of what 
appeared to be tusks, the outer layer of ivory being well preserved. 
Mr. Maynard took these specimens to his house, washed the teeth, 
and, as he informed the writer, tested the hardness of some of them 
with a hammer. The same day he placed the relics in the hands 
of Dr. F. W. Brigham, of Shrewsbury, who brought them to Wor- 
cester, and exhibited them to members of both the Natural History 
Society and the Society of Antiquity, of whom one was Mr. Thomas 
A. Dickinson, a naturalist of experience, and formerly Superin- 
tendent of the Cabinet of the first named society. Dr. Brigham 
invited these gendemen to visit Shrewsbury the next day, and 
promised to go with them to the locality where the remains were 
found. 
On Tuesday, November i8th, Messrs. Ellery B. Crane, Thomas 
A. Dickinson, Franklin P. Rice, Henry L. Shumway and Henry 
M. Smith, all of them members of The Worcester Society of An- 
tiquity, went to Shrewsbury, and, under the leadership of Dr. 
Brigham, visited the spot where the discovery was made. The 
farm of Mr. Maynard is situated about two miles from the center 
of the town, on the main road to Northborough. A short distance 
from his house, and just east of the Northborough line,* is a 
meadow of several acres' extent ; and here, a few rods from the 
* The dividing line of the two towns i-uns very near Mr. Maynard's house. 
