New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-17

endeayored TO purchase the specimen but the price
$50 900 marks, $15000) was regarded as exorDi-
tant. On his return, however, he telegraphed from
Paris an offer of a smaller sum- which was accepted
Repairing to Stuttgart, he employed ten wOrkmen
six DAYS in taking the creature TO pieces and pack
ing it in fourteen enormous boxes. in which 1t was
shipped to Rochester. The total weight was 14,694
pounds and so bulky it that it loaded four Ger
man freight cars. The freight charges from Stutt-
CART to New-YOrlI were S6S2. and from New-fork
to Rochester by canal, $S6. The present specimen
was built by Professor Ward and his imported
perpetrators after the model of the original, but
with several minor Improvements. 1t consists oil
thirty-two separate pieces and is specially adapt
ed to dismOunting for transportation The mar
is rendered Incombustible by sleeping in solution
of tungstate of soda.
LIFE AND TINES OF TIE MAMMOTH
The deep interest which the public will naturally
feel in this perfectly unique me
to offer some words in reference to the life and
times of the mammoth. History has preserved no
mention of its existence in living state, but its
bones are scattered over the whole of Europe and
Northern Asia as far as Behring's Straits; even on
the American side of the straits they occur IN
similar abundance. A somewhat different species
of mammoth has left its remains throughout the
United States, and even as far as Mexico and Cen
trail America Still another species ranged from
Honduras to Peru. Scientists have designated the
first mentioned the primeval mammoth letephdS
prfaigegiHs and our own species the American mann
moth elephas AneicqRusl. The other species IS the
Audean mammoth lelephas 1ndium). Lake modern
elephants, the mammOths probably delighted IN
water and mire and sometimes INDUCED, IKE the
rhnoceros and the well-knOwn pig in the dirty
habit of walowing" in the mud. ms INSTINCT
tempted the huge creatures INTO treAcherous oOgs, III
which they seem sometimes 10 have sunk beyond
recovery for their bones are frequently preserved
i'm beds Of peat and the skeleton Is
in an erect position. Their tusks occur IN Northern
Russia in such abundance as TO supply an lmpor-
tant part of the ivory Of commerce. 1t Is SAID that
Siberian ivory constitutes the principal maternal on
which the Russian iyory-turner WORKS Aiaska also
affords considerable supplies
Strange as it may seem. the mammoth. whose
congener the elephant. Is remarkably sensitive to
cold once abounded throughout the arctic ATTITUDES
of the two worlds. More than hundred years ago.
not only their ivory but their carcasses were known
to exist in Siberia imbedded in solid ice. The first
discovery was on the borders of the Alasea River,
which flows into the Arctic Ocean beyond In
dieirska The body was still standing erect. and
was almost perfect. The skin remained in place.
and the hair and fur were still attached in spots In
1872 the body of perfect two-horned rhinOceros,
covered with hair, was found preserved in frozen
gravel, near the Without or Wljui, tributary OF
the Lena, in latitude go. The head and feet Of
this animal-also related TO tropical species-are
preserved in st. Petersburg. The most celebrated
discovery was made in 1899. A Tungusian fisher
man named Schumacher was exploring along the
coast Of the frozen ocean for ivory. He was near
the mouth of the Lena River, in latitude 100. when
he noticed in huge block Of clear glacier ice, a
dark object, imbedded too deeply to permit half
savage curiosity to feel tempted to explore. In
1901, the melting of the ice had exposed portion
of the very carcass of the animal whose ivory was
strewn along those frozen shores In 1903 it had
become completely disengaged by the dissolution Of
the ice. In 1904, the EuEgusan cut the tusks,
weighing 800 pounds. from the head, and disposed
of them for 90 rOubles to an ivory merchant In
1906, Mr.. Adams, who was collecting for the I'M
penal Museum at st. Petersburg found the carcass
still on the Shore bat greatly mutilated II appeared
that the YakutsH had actually RECALLED their dogs
upon the flesh and bears, wolves wolverines and
foxes had gladly Toasted upon 1t! Fresh elephant
steaks preserved ten Thousand years IN natures une
aualed refrigerator Thus this priceless relic of
prehistoric world was allowed TO waste away. But
IL was not completely lost 20 science ;
for, except foreleg, the skeleton re-
NAMED perfect. A large part OF the skin
had also escaped destruction together with one
of the ears which still preserved its characteTis-
tao tuft of hairs. The skin was of dark tint, and
was covered with reddish wool an inch in length
interspersed with reddsh-bTown hairs four inches
long and sparser black brstles twelve to sixteen
inches long. DampneSs however, had destroyed
large portions and others had been trOdden into
collected including more than thirty pounds of fur
the ulk3 were repurchased and tho whole was
transported to st. Petersburg where the mounted
skeleton at present stands, in the Imperial MUSEUM
the skin still remaining attached to the head and
feet This individual was zine feet high and sixteen
feet long exclusive OF the tuss Some portions of the
Sim and hair we're sent by Mr. Adams to Sir Joseph
Banks, and they may now be seen in the Museum OF
the Royal College of Surgeons, IN London