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elephant or mastodon, I call him an elephant because with the vertebral column raised as it is in this specimen on a line with the head contrary to the usual arrangement of the skeletons of that animal hitherto found, He is nothing more or less than an elephant,  The only difference Dr. Hall says he that his teeth are not the same.  It is a pity if an elephant cannot indulge in a fancy style of tooth without being renamed by the Naturalist.  If teeth are to be so much considered we shall have to find some new designation for some of our fellow men & woman.  The photographs were very interesting the animal was found in what Dr. Hall called a "pot-hole not a very euphonious name.  These are deep wells worn into the ground it is supposed by the falling of water into fissures of the great glaciers which at one time covered the region.
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some of them are of a great depth.
23rd  Thursday.  a rainy day.  Prof called after breakfast.  Prof Guyot left us to our great regret.  He has to lecture in Baltimore.  Prof Agassiz called. while he was here Dr. Gould came in & told us Father had been elected President of the Academy.  The election was unanimous only one vote for you Prof. A. said Dr. Gould  Yes said Prof A.  I had only one vote wh. probably came from the Prof as he would not vote for himself.  Later Father has come home tired.  He has accepted the Presidency as the vote [[strikethrough]]seemed[[/strikethrough]] was so unanimous.  Soirees at Senator Morgans & Secretary Randall, Nell went with Miss H. & some of the gentlemen.
24th  Friday.  Our reception day but I made my escape to the Capitol with Prof & Miss Hereford to hear Father's paper on Sound leaving Nell & Carry to assist Mother in entertaining the guests.  They
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