. Animals of the past, an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. r-fect, retaining the outer covering of cement, came fromAfton, Indian Territory, and weighs a little over fifteenpounds. The lower tooth, shown in Fig. 38, is twelveinches long, and the grinding face is nine by three andone-half inches; this is also from Elephas of the Northern Mammoth are smaller, and theplates of enrnnel thinner, and closer to one F. E. Andrews, of Gunsight, Texas, reports hav-ing found a femur, or thigh-bone five feet four incheslong, and a humerus measuring four f
. Animals of the past, an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. r-fect, retaining the outer covering of cement, came fromAfton, Indian Territory, and weighs a little over fifteenpounds. The lower tooth, shown in Fig. 38, is twelveinches long, and the grinding face is nine by three andone-half inches; this is also from Elephas of the Northern Mammoth are smaller, and theplates of enrnnel thinner, and closer to one F. E. Andrews, of Gunsight, Texas, reports hav-ing found a femur, or thigh-bone five feet four incheslong, and a humerus measuring four feet three inches,these being the largest bones on record indicating ananimal fourteen feet high. There is a vast amount of literature relating to themammoth, some of it very untrustworthy. A list of aMdiscoveries of specimens in the flesh is given by Nordens- THE MAMMOTH 197 kiold in The Voyage of the Vega, and The Mammothamd the Flood hy Sir Henry Howorth, is a mime of in-formation. Mr. Townsends Alaska Live-MammothStory mny be fovmd in Forest and Stream forAugust 14., Fig. 37.—The Mammoth as Engraved by a PrimitiveArtist on a Piece of Mammoth Tusk. XI THE MASTODON ... who shall placeA limit to the Rants unchained strength ? The name mastodon is given to a number ofspecies of fossil elephants differing from thetrue elephants, of which the mammoth is anexample, in the structure of the teeth. In themastodons the crown, or grinding face ofthe tooth, is formed by more or less regulary\-shaped cross ridges, covered with enamel,while in the elephants the enamel takes theform of narrow, pocket-shaped plates, set up-right in the body of the tooth. Moreover, inthe mastodons the roots of the teeth are longprongs, while in the elephants the roots aresmall and irregular. A glance at the cuts willshow these distinctions better than they canbe explained by words. Back in the past, how-ever, we meet, as we should if there is any truth 198 THE MASTODON 199 in the theory of evolution,
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