38. Bucyrus, Crawford County.—In 1838, as told by the geologists C. Briggs (Second Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, pp. 127–129) and J. W. Foster (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 1, vol. XXXVI, 1839, p. 189, fig. 1), a nearly perfect skull and various parts of the skeleton were found near Bucyrus, on the land of a Mr. Hahn, during the excavation of a mill-race, and in a bed of fresh-water shell marl about 4 feet thick. Both tusks were, however, missing. There were secured also 6 cervical vertebræ, 6 dorsals, 1 lumbar, 5 caudals, 28 ribs, most of the pelvis, and several limb-bones. The fine skull was sent to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and is now preserved in the Academy of Natural Sciences of that city. What was done with the remainder of the skeleton the present writer does not know. This specimen has been referred to by several authors. N. H. Winchell (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. II, pt. 1, 1874, p. 247) stated that the skeleton was embedded in the muck and marl of a swamp and that what remained of it was then in possession of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The locality was probably near Celina moraine.
39. Sandusky, Erie County.—In 1848 (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, vol. V, p. 215), Whittlesey wrote that a tusk and a few bones of mastodon or elephant had been uncovered at the deep cut of the Mansfield Railroad, a few miles from Sandusky, in a Recent bog of muck. J. H. Klippart (Cin. Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. II, 1875, p. 153) referred to the tusk and said that a part of it was preserved in the Homœopathic College at Sandusky. It is impossible now to say whether this belonged to a mastodon or an elephant. If still preserved it may be possible to determine the genus from the microscopical structure of the ivory.
40. Brownhelm Township, Lorain County.—In the collection of Oberlin College are many bones of a mastodon, some jaws and teeth, and a part of the skull, collected about 1898, on the farm of a Mr. French, in the township named, not far from the shore of Lake Erie. Professor Lynds Jones, of Oberlin College, has sent the information that this mastodon was found in a county ditch in township 6 N., range 19 W., about where the ditch crosses from lot 29 to 30, on what is known as the North Ridge road. This ridge is mentioned by J. S. Newberry (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. II, 1874, p. 207, map opp. p. 58), and has an elevation of from 100 to 118 feet above Lake Erie. It represents the beach of old Lake Warren. According to Professor Lynds Jones, the mastodon had been buried in a morass between two branches of the North Ridge or old beach. This was of course well along toward the close of the Pleistocene period.
41. Pittsfield Township, Lorain County.—In the collection at Oberlin College are some fragments of mastodon teeth, found somewhere in Pittsfield township (Tp. 4 N., R. 18 W.) at a depth of about 2 or 3 feet, in a ditch. No further details have been secured.
In the American Museum of Natural History, at New York, is a lower right second molar which had been received from Mr. J. J. Crook. It had probably been found somewhere about Lagrange, but this is not certain.
42. Cleveland, Cuyahoga County.—The geologist Charles Whittlesey (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. XV, art. 3, p. 15) stated that, many years before he wrote, a grinder of a mastodon had been found on the west side of Cuyahoga River, in the valley alluvium, resting on drift clay near the lake level. This might indicate one of three things: The mastodon belonged to some pre-Wisconsin stage; or the tooth had, after the retirement of the lake to its present level, been washed down from above; or the animal had lived there after the lake had reached about its present level.
Newberry (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. I, pt. 1, 1873, p. 183) stated that his “Delta Sand Deposit,” which forms the surface of the Cleveland plateau, had yielded numerous portions of the skeletons of elephant and mastodon. These could hardly have existed before the retirement of the lake within the Warren beach.
Klippart (Cin. Quart. Jour. Nat. Sci., vol. II, 1875, p. 153) says that a nearly complete skeleton of a mastodon was dug up in the immediate vicinity of Cleveland, but had been broken into pieces at once by the workmen. The identity of this specimen is doubtful and the exact locality is unknown.
43. Medina County.—In 1875 (op. cit., p. 153), Klippart reported that nearly 50 years before he wrote tusks, said to have been 12 feet long, and some parts of the skeleton of a mastodon had been taken out of a marl pit in this county. As in other cases, there is uncertainty about the locality and the identity of the animal.
44. Green Township, Summit County.—Professor William C. Mills, of the State University of Ohio, has informed the writer that he had secured remains of a young mastodon in section 13 of this township (Tp. 2 N., R. 9 W.). The bones were found at a depth of about 30 inches and were badly decayed. The region is flat and lies in a bend of the headwaters of Tuscarawas River.