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AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
Vol. XII. AUGUST, 1893. No. 2. 
THE RECENTLY FOUND CASTOROIDES IN RAN- 
DOLPH COUNTY, INDIANA. 
By Joseph MoorEi Richmond, Ind. 
Plate III. 
I. Introductory X of ice. 
In the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 
Nov., 1890, appeared an article concerning a skeleton of the 
"Great Fossil Beaver," Castoroides ohioensis. The main part 
of said article was devoted to anatomical description. As 
the structural details have already been given, it is hardly de- 
sirable to repeat them here, but rather to give some items 
that may be of more general interest to the reader. 
Since the contribution to the Cincinnati Journal was 
made there has been further opportunity for study and com- 
parison and the missing parts have been restored and mounted 
by Prof. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y. The entire specimen as 
represented in the accompanying photograph is in the muse- 
um of Karlham College, Richmond, Indiana. 
II. Locality and Character of a round. 
Randolph is in the eastern tier of the counties of Indiana 
about midway north and south. 
About six miles nearly east of Winchester, the county seat. 
and about the same distance southwest of Union City, is the 
farm of Jno. M. Turner, on which the remains were found. 
The farmers of the neighborhood were opening a large ditch 
to drain a swampy tract, locally known as "the dismal." The 
