Show A BIG BEAVER Dise discovery overy of the skull of a monster of the th ternary age one of th the e rarest of fossil remains h has w been unearthed in michigan near the indiana state line and is now in the possession pos of george A baker of south bend I 1 ind says rays the cincinnati com mere mercial 1 al gazette it is the skull of a mammoth mam to th beaver a monster of the quaternary mT age existing ile with the mastodon and in only five other instances lu in the united states and in this country alone have any portion of the remains of a mammoth beaver been found and these were wem always of the teeth or skull but generally of only the teeth the first discovery was at nash port licking county 0 0 by prof foster whose find a skull is described in american rican by prof allen alien and a cast of which w waa taken by prof agassiz iz and the cast alone remains the skull moeses possessed zed by mr baker is ie long is about 6 inches wide and stands about 5 inches highs high it has as thel the teeth and also tm great incisors incisors used in tree cutting cut ting the incisors are about 9 inches long and 1 inches in diameter it was found 2 d in a bog and from compari comparisons sons with other s specimens mens it is th the largest and finest specimen s now known to eidet T ohp ve live animal could not have weighed less than pounds |