Catalogue of the organic remains : which, with other geological and some mineral articles, were presented to the New York Lyceum of Natural History, in August 1826, by their associate, Samuel L. Mitchill.

  • Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Catalogue of the organic remains : which, with other geological and some mineral articles, were presented to the New York Lyceum of Natural History, in August 1826, by their associate, Samuel L. Mitchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    6. A box, containing samples of the pond marl in Ulster county, New-York, where the skeletons and bones of the mastodons are sometimes found. Marl of the shells of fresh water molluscas. 7. Calcareous marl, from alike origin at Dover, Dutch- ess county, New-York. 8. The like, though of a browner hue, from Sharon, Connecticut. The shells of which these specimens consist, decaying and decayed, are two species of planorbis, two of spiror- bis, one of succineum, and some others. 9. A bottle of testaceous sand, showing how shells worn down by the waves are, in the process of preparation, to form earthy strata. From the oceanic shore of Long- Island. (a) Salt water mud and shells. Long-Island. 10. Cast in plaster, from Dr. Hayden of Baltimore, of an elephant's tooth, found on the eastern shore of Maryland. 11. Singular boat-shaped tooth of an elephant, found on Bennett's farm, Middletown, New-Jersey; from the re- gion where the relics on the second shelf were found.— Scudder. 12. Two teeth of the great mastodon, one large and one small; found in alluvial soil near Natchez.—Dr. Freiot. 13. Grinder of an elephant, said to be American; but locality not known, though the specimen is in excellent condition. 14. Huge tooth of an elephant, brought by A. Vache from a voyage beyond Cape Horn, and reported by him to have been found on some (to him unknown) island in the Pacific ocean. Good condition, with the exception of a fracture at one extremity. 15. Sound tooth of an elephant from Tuscany, in Italy; received as an offering of peculiar value,-from the late learned and incomparable Dr. Albers of Bremen, and be- lieved by him to have belonged to one of the African quad- rupeds of war which crossed the Rhone, the Alps, and the Po, with Hannibal of Carthage.