8. Carroll County.—In 1884 (14th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, pt. 2, p. 37) the State geologist, John Collett, wrote that Castoroides had been found in this county; but nothing was added to this statement. On the map the number is placed arbitrarily.
9. Logansport, Cass County.—In the U. S. National Museum is a fine skull of Castoroides, without lower jaw, which, according to the newspaper report accompanying it (dated January 30, 1894), was found 2 or 3 miles north of Logansport, by Mr. S. L. McFadin, who sold it to the National Museum. It lay at a depth of 7 feet on a fine sand, above which was a foot of solid gravel, then 3 feet of solid clay, and at the top 3 feet of alluvium. According to Leverett and Taylor’s map of the region (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. LIII, plate VI), this place would be on the moraine which lies north of the Wabash River, the meeting-place of the ice-lobes coming from Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Saginaw Bay.
10. Macy, Miami County.—From Mr. C. F. Fite, Denver, Indiana, the writer received a photograph of a tooth of Castoroides, apparently the lower right incisor. This was found in Allen Township. Mr. Fite gives as the exact locality section 23, township 29, range 3 east. This would be not far from Macy. It lies, therefore, on or near the northern border of the great moraine which extends from Delphi, Indiana, to the northeastern corner of the State.
11. Kosciusko County.—As in the case of Cass County, we depend for our knowledge of the discovery of Castoroides in Kosciusko County on the statement made by John Collett, in the place there cited.
12. Grovertown, Starke County.—From Dr. E. S. Riggs, of Field Museum of Natural History, the information has been received that there is at that museum a fine skull, with the right half pf the mandible, of a giant beaver which was found 1.5 miles west of Grovertown, in making an excavation for the abutment of a bridge, 6 feet below the surface in township 34 north, range 1 west. This is within the region of the Pleistocene Lake Kankakee.
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1. Shawneetown, Gallatin County.—In the collection of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia are a part of one incisor, two molars, and two petrous bones which were many years ago obtained by a Dr. Feuchtwanger, from a well at a depth of 40 feet. These were mentioned by Le Conte in 1852 (Proc. Acad. Phila., vol. VI, p. 53). Leidy has figured the incisor (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,” 1860, plate XXII, fig. 5; Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Pennsylvania, 1887, plate II, fig. 10). Leverett (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. XXXVIII, p. 65) states that at Shawneetown a boring for gas and oil penetrated 112 feet of alluvial and other deposits before reaching rock. His map (plate VI) indicates that here the valley of the Ohio is composed of sand and gravel plains of Wisconsin age. Under the conditions it seems impossible to form any certain conclusions regarding the geological age of this specimen. It belongs possibly to the later half of the Pleistocene.
2. Alton, Madison County.—In the McAdams collection, described on page [338], is a part of a large upper incisor, in two pieces, of a specimen of Castoroides, with McAdams’s Nos. 209, 210, and a small fragment of another incisor. All three specimens are more or less enveloped in nodules of hard materials. In 1883 (Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci., vol. IV, p. LXXX) McAdams stated that he had seen, both in true and modified drift, remains of rodents large and small, but one, an extinct beaver, was of monstrous size.
For conclusions as to the age of the fauna secured by McAdams see page [339].