Natural history . ephas imperator, inhabited the southernUnited State- and it- remains are found in Texas. The third Columbian Mammoth. Elephas columbi, inhabited the greater partof the United State-, and h- range extended as far southwest as and bone- of the last-named species have been identifiedfrom many localities, but the specimen now under consideratioD i- themost nearly complete skeleton yet mounted in thi-country. This skel-eton was found on the farm of D. C. Gift, four miles east of Jonesboro,Indiana. That part of Grant County is level and was originally swamp
Natural history . ephas imperator, inhabited the southernUnited State- and it- remains are found in Texas. The third Columbian Mammoth. Elephas columbi, inhabited the greater partof the United State-, and h- range extended as far southwest as and bone- of the last-named species have been identifiedfrom many localities, but the specimen now under consideratioD i- themost nearly complete skeleton yet mounted in thi-country. This skel-eton was found on the farm of D. C. Gift, four miles east of Jonesboro,Indiana. That part of Grant County is level and was originally swampyand had to be drained. While enlarging a drainage canal across a partof the farm, a tenant encountered the skeleton only eight feet below thesurface, where it lay articulated, with its bones in position just as theanimal had fallen after becoming mired in the old swamp. The feetwere not found, having been perhaps scraped out and lost during thefirst opening of the drain, hence the lower parts of the limbs and the. 6 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL feet have been restored from casts of a skeleton of Elephas primigeniuswhich is in the Paris Museum of Natural History. The following measurements show the size of this unique specimen:Length, tips of tusks to vertical line of tail, 17 feet P4 inches. base J-J ?>_• Height at shoulders, 10 6 Length of right tusk (outside curve), 11 4-j DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY; FIELDEXPEDITIONS OF 1906. HE Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology had threeexpeditions in the field last summer. The first, underMr. Barnum Brown, continued the hunt for dinosaursin the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Montana. A fineskeleton of the Duck-billed Dinosaur Claosaurus andseveral less complete specimens of these strange look-ing animals were secured. The Museum now possesses two mounta-ble skeletons and an excellent skull, representing three distinct kindsof Duck-billed Dinosaurs, besides many less complete specimens. also discovered remains of
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