. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California. the bi by. The mother may li pool, i r perhaps to eal of the treachery of the sticky herst If and her baby. ive \ ''in ured i o drink scanty vegetation neai ubsoil proved to be a fatal a1 the tarry it: I lut the trap, both for. Right lower jaw of young mastodon, showing cutting of first permanent tooth. lire, hence This fact tusks are The tusks of the elephant grow continually throughout do doI become very hard and resistant, but soon decay, accounts for the poor condition in whi
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California. the bi by. The mother may li pool, i r perhaps to eal of the treachery of the sticky herst If and her baby. ive \ ''in ured i o drink scanty vegetation neai ubsoil proved to be a fatal a1 the tarry it: I lut the trap, both for. Right lower jaw of young mastodon, showing cutting of first permanent tooth. lire, hence This fact tusks are The tusks of the elephant grow continually throughout do doI become very hard and resistant, but soon decay, accounts for the poor condition in which most of the found. While the exact origin of the greath North American true ele- phant is quite perplexing, yet one thing seems evident, that they came from the Orient by way of Behring bridge. Tine,, species occui ier<—E. imperator and E. columbi and E. primogenus. The firsl two of these roamed over the country together, from east to west, f] torth to south as far as Mexico. Only a single specimen tooth E. imperator having been reported from the lower Pleistocene 'rench Guiana. The evolutionary process of the Probiscidia began in Fayum, Egypt, with a form about three feet tall with only slighl protrusion of the upper lip for a proboscis and no upper tusks, but with the lower incisors extending forward. It is from the un- developed and generalized form that the mastodons and elephants ipe, Asia and America came. Tims began in Egypt one of the emarkable face histories known to mankind and continued t< . and might persist as long as time shall last, but for the ravages of man. From the foregoing it must be clear that, without exception, all the animals buried in the asphalt beds on Baneho La Brea were wanderers thither. Some from other parts of North America as their native home, while others had compassed the earth to arrive here. What a scattering of life in its instinct to roam: What an effort 4!). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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