1. Stroudsburg, Monroe County.—In 1889 (Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Pennsylvania for 1887, p. 6), Dr. Joseph Leidy reported on a collection which many years before had been found in Hartman’s Cave, near Stroudsburg. Nearly all the species still exist, but in the collection was included Castoroides and Rangifer. Among the fossils were jawbones, with teeth, and broken bones of the Virginia deer. It seems possible that the remains had collected there at the close of the Pleistocene; but some may belong to the Recent.
2. Frankstown, Blair County.—In 1908 (Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. IV, p. 231), Dr. W. J. Holland reported the discovery of remains of a deer, possibly Odocoileus virginianus, in a cave at Frankstown. With this deer were many other species of mammals. A list is presented on page [321].
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1. New Knoxville, Auglaize County.—In his “History of Ohio and of Auglaize County,” 1905, on page 338, C. W. Williamson, in describing the finding of a skull of Castoroides near New Knoxville, stated that some bones of the deer had been found in what was believed to have been the house of the giant beaver. They were supposed to have been brought there by carnivorous animals; but the deer may have died there before the house was covered up.
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1. Adrian, Lenawee County.—In 1880 the U. S. National Museum received from Professor Kost, then of Adrian College, a skull of Castoroides ohioensis discovered at the place named above. In his communication he wrote that at the same place there had been found previously a mastodon and bones of an elk and of a deer. The place was in a marsh, in Adrian, and the fossils were at a depth of 4 feet.
2. Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County.—In 1908, Russell and Leverett (Folio 155, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 9) reported the discovery of bones of deer and elk in a peat-swamp, 3 miles south of Ann Arbor. In the same swamp had been found, at a depth of 5 feet, a skull of Castoroides ohioensis. The bones of the deer and elk were at a somewhat higher level, so that it is not wholly certain they belong to the Pleistocene.
The specimens found both at Adrian and Ann Arbor lived there after the retreat of the Wisconsin ice.