SOME PROBOSCIDIAN REMAINS FOUND IN HENRY 
COUNTY 
H. E. JAQUES 
Rather frequent discoveries of the remains of at least two 
species of the extinct elephant-like animals which inhabited this 
continent during the Pleistocene have been made in Henry county. 
These specimens have been found in several parts of the county, 
and have usually been limited to tusks and teeth. A number of 
bones have been found but in most cases in such condition as to 
Fig. 5a. Tooth of Mammut Americanum. 
make identification difficult. At least two of these finds are 
sufficiently noteworthy to deserve some permanent record. 
The Mastodon tooth (Fig. 5a) was found during the digging of 
a shallow well less than a mile east of Mount Pleasant (Section 
14, Twp. 71 N., Range VI W.) at what was known as the “Ross 
Spring.” This tooth is apparently the third molar of a mature 
animal of the species Mammut americanum. It measures eight 
