Note 1667 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

The references are very numerous; but it is enough to refer to the general geological treatises: Vogt’s Lectures on Man, nos. 9, 10; Nadaillac’s Les Prem. Hommes, ii. 7; Dawkins in Intellectual Observer, xii. 403; and Ed. Lartet, Nouvelles recherches sur la coexistence de l’homme et des grands mammifères fossiles, réputés caractéristiques de la dernière période geologique, in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 4e série, xv. 256. Buffon first formulated the belief in extinct animals from some mastodon bones and teeth sent to him from the Big Bone Lick in Kentucky, about 1740, and Cuvier first applied the name mastodon, though from the animal’s resemblance to the Siberian mammoth it has sometimes been called by the latter name. There are in reality the fossil remains of both mastodon and mammoth found in America. On the bones from the Big Bone Lick see Thomson’s Bibliog. Ohio, no. 44.