MISSISSIPPI.
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1. Natchez, Adams County.—In his report on the Geology and Agriculture of Mississippi, 1854, page 284, Wailles wrote that fossil remains of the elephant were not then known to have been found in the State. However, on page 286, Elephas primigenius is included in the list of fossil Mammalia furnished by Leidy. The latter does not say where in Mississippi elephant remains had been discovered, but it was probably at Natchez.
In his work on the Lafayette formation (12th Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv., part 1, p. 400), McGee stated that at least one skull of the American elephant had been found at Natchez in gravel, well down toward the Port Hudson clays, and that to this adhered some of the coarse gravel of the matrix. Probably the species was Elephas columbi. It is likely that the skulls referred to by McGee were not as complete as he supposed.
TENNESSEE.
1. Gallatin, Sumner County.—In 1835, Professor G. Troost (Trans. Geol. Soc. Penn., vol. I, 1835, p. 144) reported that a Mrs. Ephraim Foster possessed a tooth of Elephas primigenius found in a well at a depth of 40 feet. The identification followed the opinion of that time that only one species of elephant had existed in the country. It more probably belonged to E. columbi.
2. Columbia, Maury County.—In the publication just referred to the geologist G. Troost stated that he owned a tooth of Elephas primigenius, found a few miles below Columbia, probably near Duck River, but no details as to the exact locality and kinds of deposits were furnished. Hayes and Ulrich (Folio 95, U. S. Geol. Surv.) appear not to have recognized any Pleistocene in this quadrangle. On page [6] they stated that narrow strips of bottom lands occur along the larger streams, particularly along Duck River. The tooth was probably that of E. columbi.
KENTUCKY.
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