Identifier: annualreportofbo1908smitfo (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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al was dug out of the cliff, but the collector, M, O. F. Herz,has preserved a very accurate record of texture and color of the hairon different parts of the body. This consists of a woolly undercoat,yellowish-brown in color, and an outer bristly coat varying fromfawn to dark brown and black. The hair on the chin and breastmust have been at least half a yard in length, and it was also longon the shoulders; that of the back, however, was not preserved. This interesting relic is mounted in the St. Petersburg Museum, theskin in the attitude in which it was found, while the skeleton is inwalking posture beside it (pi. 2). Immense quantities of fossil ivory have been exported from Siberia,there having been sold in the London market as many as 1,635 mam-moth tusks in a single year, averaging 150 pounds in weight; of thesebut 14 per cent were of the best quality, 17 per cent inferior, whilemore than half were useless commercially. The total number of Smithsonian Report, 1908.—Lull, Plate 1,
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Mammoth Found Frozen in the Ice Near Beresovka, Siberia, as it Lay in the Cliff. After Herz.

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