11. Canton, Stark County.—In Mount Union-Scio College the writer has examined a right tibia of a proboscidean reported to have been found 3 miles northeast of Canton. It is believed to have belonged to one of the elephants and not to a mastodon. The following measurements were taken.
| mm. | |
|---|---|
| Total length | 675 |
| Side-to-side diameter of lower end across the articular surface | 200 |
| Fore-and-aft diameter of lower end across the articular surface | 160 |
| Circumference at middle of length | 345 |
| Side-to-side diameter at middle of length | 110 |
| Fore-and-aft diameter at middle of length | 104 |
| Side-to-side diameter at extreme upper end | 245 |
MICHIGAN.
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1. East Saginaw, Saginaw County.—In 1902 (Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Michigan for 1901, p. 252), Dr. A. C. Lane reported the tooth of a mammoth found in ditching close to the Père Marquette shaft No. 2, in East Saginaw, and that this had been identified by the taxidermist William Richter. The size given, 11 by 5 inches, indicates that it belonged to one of the elephants. It was found at a depth of 3 feet or less, and at an elevation of about 25 feet above the lake. The writer has been unable to get any additional information about this tooth. The locality is within the beach-line of the glacial Lake Algonquin, which appears, according to Leverett and Taylor (Monogr. LIII, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 397), to have stood at a lower level than our present Lake Erie.
2. Macomb County.—Alexander Winchell (1st Bienn. Rep. Geol. Surv. Michigan, 1861, p. 132), in speaking of an elephant molar found in the northern part of Jackson County, added that other remains had been found in Macomb County. A. C. Lane (Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Michigan for 1901, p. 252, footnote) takes this to refer to the remains of the mammoth. Here again a discovery is made of little value, through the neglect to collect accurate information and to preserve the specimen. Macomb County, situated on Lake St. Clair, is nearly wholly occupied by deposits laid down by the falling glacial lakes from Lake Maumee to Lake Erie.
3. Grand Ledge, Eaton County.—Former State Geologist A. C. Lane (Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Michigan for 1901, p. 252) made the following statement:
“Mr. E. R. Grinold, of Grand Ledge, noticed in ditching north of that town that they had cut through a tusk; and through Mr. C. V. Fuller my attention was called. I went there and found the remains barely a foot from the surface, in a little low swale which Mr. Frank Tabor, the owner, said was a duck pond 40 years ago; in other words, a good place for a large, heavy animal to get mired. We exposed three teeth which were plainly those of a mammoth, and were lying just exposed. The teeth were, two of them, 8 inches long, the third 6. The tusk had flattened into an ellipse about 9 by 5 inches near the butt, and 6 or 7 feet long.”
Grand Ledge is on the south bank of Grand River, in the northern edge of the county; likewise on the Lansing moraine, one of the concentric moraines laid down by the retreating Saginaw lobe of the Wisconsin ice.
4. Buchanan, Berrien County.—Mr. W. Hillis Smith, of Niles, Michigan, informed the writer that in 1899 a drainage ditch was being made through the Bakerstown marsh, south and west from Buchanan, and in the course of the work many mastodon bones were thrown out; also that one tooth of a mammoth was found. This came into the possession of Mr. E. H. Crane, of Kalamazoo.