In 1886 (Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. IV, p. 309), Dr. E. Sterling, of Cleveland, wrote that about 15 years previously a mastodon skeleton had been found in a cranberry swamp in Lucas County; but no more exact location was given. A large ditch was being made where the muck of the bog was about 8 feet deep and rested on a layer of “hard pan.” The skeleton was badly decayed. What proof the writer had that the remains belonged to the mastodon is not stated.
35. _Jackson Township, Wood County._—From a clipping taken from the Toledo Blade of January 15, 1919, with 2 illustrations, it is learned that Mr. John Welsh, of the township named, while digging a trench on his farm, unearthed a tooth of a mastodon. The pictures show that it was a considerably worn, lower right hindermost molar. Jackson Township (Tp. 3 N., R. 9 E.) is in the southwestern corner of the county. From Mr. Welsh the writer learns that the locality is 3.5 miles northeast of Deshler and in section 17. The tooth was buried at a depth of 4 feet. The locality is well within the area covered by old Lake Maumee.
36. _Carey, Wyandot County._—In April, 1911, Mr. O. N. Copley, Cary, sent to the Smithsonian Institution a much-worn lower left first true molar, found at Cary, in muck, at a depth of 3 feet. With it was found also a canine tooth of a bear, apparently _Ursus americanus_. These were buried near the Defiance moraine.
37. _Old Fort, Seneca County._—At Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, the writer was told of a mastodon which had been found at Old Fort, and was in the possession of Mr. J. A. Gillmor, of Fremont, Ohio. Upon inquiry Mr. Gillmor stated that the tooth, of which he sent a sketch, had been found in 1909 in a low and marshy piece of tiled ground which lies east of Sandusky River, opposite Old Fort. The tooth was very superficially buried, for it was turned up by the plow. Mr. Gillmor stated that in constructing the Nickel Plate Railroad, not far from where the tooth was found, some large bones had been discovered. The locality is north of Defiance moraine and on the old bed of Lake Maumee.
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.