68 The American Geologist. January, isK 
The opening address was given by Prof. R. D. Salisbuuv, 
with lantern projections, on '■'Greenhiud,'''' and the retiring ad- 
dress of the president, Prof. C. R. Van Hise, was on "■Earth 
Maremeiits.'''' The meeting was held at Milwaui^ee, Dec. 28-30. 
Mastodon Ajiericaxus. In the museum of Earlham college 
at Richmond, Ind., has recently been erected a fine skeleton 
of this extinct mammal, a photograph of which, sent to the 
GEOLoaisT by Prof. Jos. Moore, shows it is one of the best in 
the country. The following particulars are given by Mr. 
Moore : 
This skeleton is built of the combined remnants of two mas- 
todons ; the one found near New Paris. Ohio, the other near 
Losantsville, Randolph county, Indiana. The two were so 
nearl}' on the same scale that the one served to piece out the 
other. 
The cranium is the original head of the Randolph find. It 
was much broken in taking it out of the mud, but the large 
fragments were rearranged in natural order and the vacancies 
filled in with paper pulp by AVard & Co. 
The lower jaw is bone throughout. All the grinders are 
natural teeth. The tusks are paper, but are exactly modelled 
after originals which belong to a verj' large skull found in 
Orange county, New York. One of the original tusks, the 
left, lies on the platform. It was too brittle and heavy to 
mount. Of the vertebrae, including those of the neck, body 
and tail, thirty-six are bone. Of the thirty-eight ribs all are 
bone but three. The sternum is bone. All parts of the fore 
legs are bone except the left humerus. The fore feet are al- 
most entirely bone. The shoulder blades are bone throughout 
their length, but the borders are restored in plaster. The 
hind legs are all bone except the fibula of the left leg. The 
pelvis is a restoration from the massive fragments of the 
original. 
From the pedestal to the top of the highest spine is eleven 
feet, less half an inch. From pedestal to top of head is eleyen 
feet, two inches. From pedestal to summit of pelvis, nine 
feet. Horizontal width of pelvis, six ft., three inches. From 
forward curve of tusks to backward curve of tail is twenty 
feet, two inches. From sole of foot to top of scapula, nine 
feet, seven inches. The femur is \^\ inches long; tibia 28:^ 
inches; humerus B9| inches; ulna 31 inches; scapula 38 
inches. Estimated M'eight when alive, about ten tons. It 
ranks among the largest of known mastodons. 
The skeleton was mounted in the summer of 1895 by Joseph 
Moore and Caswell Grave, and remounted by the same in the 
summer of 1896. 
