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inches, and weighed 3G0 lbs. A small portion of the skin 
with the hair upon it, is now in the College of Surgeons, 
London, and when first received still retained an offensive 
smell ; a small quantity of the hair and wool is also in the 
Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
In October, 1844, the Skeletons of five Mastodons, four 
mature and a calf, were exhumed on a farm near New 
Jersey, in the United States. The largest lay on its side, 
and a few feet further lay the next in size on its back, a 
little to the north and west occurred the other two and the 
calf, all in a standing position ; between the ribs of two or 
three of them was a considerable quantity of what resem- 
bled coarse chopped straw, probably grass mixed with 
fragments of sticks, all of which were no doubt the contents 
of their stomachs. The number of individuals occurring 
together, and most of them in a standing position, seemed 
to indicate they had been overwhelmed in one of their 
native haunts by some sudden catastrophe, and this at no 
very remote period.* 
In the summer of 1845, the Skeleton of an immense 
Mastodon was exhumed about six miles west of Newburgh, 
United States, which was entire even to the small bones 
of the feet and tail. The skull alone weighed 700 lbs. ; 
the tusks measuring nine feet, and the width across the 
hips seven feet. The animal had evidently settled down on 
its haunches with its fore feet spread out, thus indicating that 
it had been mired, and hence the cause of its death ; under 
the vertebrae the contents of the stomach were found, which 
amounted to several bushels, and consisted of leaves, twigs, 
and fragments of branches, crunched and broken up.f 
In 1847, Professor Gray exhibited to the Boston Natural 
History Society, some earthy matter filled with broken frag- 
* Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, December, 1844. 
f Geological Journal, 1845, page 567. 
