Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACCOUNT OF THE SKELETON OF =The Mammoth,= A NON-DESCRIPT CARNIVOROUS ANIMAL OF _IMMENSE SIZE_, =Found in America.= ---------- BY REMBRANDT PEALE, THE PROPRIETOR. ---------- LONDON: PRINTED AND SOLD BY E. LAWRENCE, NO. 378, STRAND; AND TO BE HAD AT THE EXHIBITION-ROOM, NO. 118, PALL MALL. --- 1802. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, &c. ------- Receive, Sir, as a small testimony of my high respect for a Character rendered illustrious in the paths of Science, this plain recital of Facts, and first publication, derived from authentic sources, on a subject in which You have declared Yourself to feel the most lively interest; and which must interest every thinking mind, delighting in the investigation of physical causes, or disposed “to look through Nature up to Nature’s God.” Your much obliged, And humble Servant, REMBRANDT PEALE. London, October, 1802. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACCOUNT OF =The Skeleton= OF THE MAMMOTH. -------