Transactions - American Philosophical Society . ^n Sc PL. -Lateral. VLm> of2<m)er Jaw JJlTrtyDn Sc. OF EXTINCT MAMMIFEROUS QUADRUPEDS. 485 tion, belonging to the beautiful Museum of R. Peale of NewYork; of a fourth we have heard, as being in possession ofa distinguished scientific gentleman of that city, though ofthis we can affirm nothing positively. It is highly probablethat other specimens have been raised by those engaged incanalling, &c. that have been laid aside as Mastodon bones,which they so closely resemble.* In regard to the relative position of the animal in the c
Transactions - American Philosophical Society . ^n Sc PL. -Lateral. VLm> of2<m)er Jaw JJlTrtyDn Sc. OF EXTINCT MAMMIFEROUS QUADRUPEDS. 485 tion, belonging to the beautiful Museum of R. Peale of NewYork; of a fourth we have heard, as being in possession ofa distinguished scientific gentleman of that city, though ofthis we can affirm nothing positively. It is highly probablethat other specimens have been raised by those engaged incanalling, &c. that have been laid aside as Mastodon bones,which they so closely resemble.* In regard to the relative position of the animal in the classMammalia, we are led by the form of the lower jaw and tusksto believe that it should stand between the genera Mastodonand Hippopotamus; being allied to the former by the generalcharacter of the teeth and skeleton, and to the latter espe-cially, by the inferior tusks, as well as the form of the molarteeth. The same circumstances would cause us to concludethat the regimen of our animal might have been of a mixedcharacter, or that like the Hippopotamus this gen
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