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GEO. P. TEBBETTS, - - MANAGER

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SATURDAY, - May 18, 1889.

FOSSIL MASTODON.

Some time ago, Dr. Stephen Bow-
ers, of Ventura, reported that, in
grading the streets of that city,
some teeth and bones had been
found, which he supposed were
those of a fossil llama, but the teeth,
together with some other fossils
from Ventura county, having been
referred to Dr. Lorenzo G. Yates,
of this city, prove to be the cusps of
the tooth of a mastodon.

Dr. Yates has, for many years,
made a specialty, of the study of
the fossil vertebrate animals of Cal-
ifornia, and in a paper read before
the Philadelphia Academy of
Science in 1871, he noted nine
localities in this State for fossil
remains of the mastodon, and twen-
ty localities for fossil elephant.
The mastodon found in one of the
localities proved to be a new species.

In June, 1873, another paper by
Dr. Yates upon the same subject
was read before the Agassiz Insti-
tute of Sacramento.

Remains of the mastodon have
been found in so many places on
this coast, and in sufficient number
to warrant the conclusion, that, in
a remote age, before man appeared,
these monsters, larger than the
elephant of the present day, roamed
at will over the plains of Califor-
nia, and cropped the rich herbage
that succeeded the tertiary.