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ON A NEARLY COMPLETE SKULL OF SYMBOS CAVIFRONS LEIDY FROM MICHIGAN

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About the first of August of this year an account of the discovery of a fossil skull appeared in the Manchester (Michigan) Enterprise. This upon examination turned out to be a nearly complete skull of the extinct musk ox Symbos cavifrons.

The skull was found on the farm of Wm. J. Schlicht, about three miles northeast of Manchester, Michigan, in the excavation of a drain. It lay on a bed of clay four feet below the level of the rather swampy surface and was covered by a black muck filled with plant remains and interrupted by a few thin layers of fine gravel. Unfortunately one of the workmen struck the end of the nose with his spade and in the subsequent handling of the specimen the pieces were lost: a few of these were recovered in the examination of the locality and the