21. Shadeville, Franklin County.—In the collection of the University of Ohio, the writer has seen a tooth of a mastodon which was found at Shadeville. This place is on Scioto River, a few miles below Columbus. It is probably of Late Wisconsin age.
51. Granville, Licking County.—In 1873 (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 3, vol. V, p. 79), L. E. Hicks reported that he had examined the left side of the pelvis of a mastodon found in the bank of Raccoon Creek, near Granville, along the route of the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway. This place is on the west border of the Grand River moraine.
22. Mount Gilead, Morrow County.—In Ward’s Natural History Establishment, at Rochester, New York, the writer has seen an upper left third molar of a mastodon, labeled as having been found at this place. No details accompanied the specimen. The tooth is 158 mm. long and 95 mm. wide, and has a large pulp-cavity. Mount Gilead is on the moraine which forms the eastern limb of the Scioto lobe. The tooth may be with safety regarded as of Late Wisconsin age.
23. Harper, Logan County.—In Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, are 2 molars of a mastodon, the lower second and the third, which were found somewhere in the vicinity of Harper.
24. Roundhead, Hardin County.—In 1875 (Cin. Quart. Jour. Sci., vol. II, p. 153), J. H. Klippart reported that considerable parts of the skeleton of a mastodon had been exhumed at Fort McArthur, in Hardin County, having evidently drifted out to the Scioto marsh and being widely scattered. Fort McArthur does not appear on recent maps; a gazetteer of 1835 locates the place in Logan County, 24 miles north of Urbana. The locality appears to be in the neighborhood of Roundhead and in the marshes in which Scioto and Miami Rivers take their rise.
25. Washington Township, Auglaize County.—In Bulletin No. 16 of the Geological Survey of Ohio, 1912, page 38, Mr. Alfred Dachnowski, quoting from C. W. Williamson, stated that in 1878 Mr. S. Craig, while engaged in surveying section 19 of Washington Township (Tp. 6 S., R. 5 E.) discovered a mastodon skeleton. No further search had been made in 1905 (Williamson’s Hist. West. Ohio and Auglaize County, p. 336). While doubtless a proboscidean was buried there, one can not be sure that it was not an elephant. This place is not far from New Knoxville.
26. Pusheta Township, Auglaize County.—From the same authorities it is learned that in 1894 a mastodon calf was discovered in section 29 of the township named (Tp. 6 S., R. 6 E.), embedded in a layer of muck at the bottom of a circular pond. The skeleton is reported as having been quite complete, but it went to pieces as it dried. The tusks were about 1 foot long. At this place the waters flow into Clear Creek, a branch of Auglaize River.
27. Wapakoneta, Auglaize County.—The authorities quoted reported that a mastodon had been discovered in a ditch excavation in section 33 of Duchouquet Township (Tp. 5 S., R. 6 E.), not far from Wapakoneta. The remains crumbled on exposure and drying. They may have been those of an elephant.
28. Duchouquet Township, Auglaize County.—The authorities on whom reliance is here put state that in 1891 a mastodon was discovered by some laborers who were deepening and widening the bed of a creek which extends through section 22 of the township mentioned. This creek must have been either Auglaize River or a branch of it, so unimportant that it is not down on the topographical sheet of that quadrangle. The tusks extended across the creek and were cut off by the workmen and carried away.
29. St. Johns, Auglaize County.—Mastodons have been reported from two localities near the village of St. Johns and along the headwaters of Willow Creek. The one nearest the village is mentioned in Dachnowski’s work “Peat Deposits of Ohio” (Bull. 16, Geol. Surv. Ohio, 1912, p. 38). It was found in section 4 of Clay Township (Tp. 6 S., R. 7 E.), some time about 1870. There is no certainty that the bone did not belong to an elephant. The other mastodon was found in 1870 and accounts of the discovery were given by Dr. G. K. Gilbert (Proc. Lyc. Nat. Hist., N. Y., vol. I, 1871, p. 220; Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. I, pt. 1, 1873, p. 556); and by C. W. Williamson (Hist. West. Ohio and Auglaize County, 1905, pp. 334–336). The locality is 2.5 miles east of St. Johns, in section 3, Clay Township. Farmers were engaged in running a broad ditch through a swamp. The depth of the swamp deposit at that point was 8 feet, of which the upper third was peat, the remainder, so far as shown, of marl or marly clay. The bones were in their natural relations and it was evident to Gilbert that the animal had mired there. The lower limb-bones were directed downward and well preserved, but the bones nearer the surface were badly decomposed. The presence of the teeth enabled Gilbert to identify the animal as the mastodon. The peat had evidently been deposited after the death of the animal, which had occurred after the deposit of the drift. Klippart (Cin. Quart. Jour. Sci., vol. II, p. 153) stated that a part of the remains had been placed in the Wapakoneta High School. The remains must have been buried near the Loramie moraine.