Noord en
Oost Tartarye_ (1692, Vol. II. p. 473). ]

[Footnote 220: E. Yssbrants Ides, _Dreyjarige Reise nach China_,
etc., Frankfort, 1707, p. 55. The first edition was published in
Amsterdam, in Dutch, in 1704. ]

[Footnote 221: Strahlenberg in _Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von
Europa und Asia_, Stockholm, 1730, p. 393, also gives a large number
of statements regarding the fossil Siberian ivory, and mentions that
the distinguished Siberian traveller Messerschmidt found a complete
skeleton on the river Tom. ]

[Footnote 222: Tilesius, _De skeleto mammonteo Sibirico (Mem. de
l'Acad. de St. Petersbourg, T.V. pour l'annee 1812_, p. 409).
Middendorff, _Sib. Reise_, IV. i. p. 274. Von Olfers, _Die Ueberreste
vorweltlicher Riesenthiere in Beziehung zu Ostasia-tischen Sagen und
Chinesischen Schriften (Abhandl. der Akad. d. Wissensch. zu Berlin
aus dem Jahre 1839_, p 51). ]

[Footnote 223: P.S. Pallas, _De reliquiis animalium exoticorum per
Asiam borealem repertis complementum (Novi commentarii Acad. Sc.
Petropolitanae_, XVII. pro anno 1772, p. 576), and _Reise durch
verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs_, Th. III. St.
Petersburg, 1776, p. 97. ]

[Footnote 224: Hedenstroem, _Otrywki o Sibiri_, St. Petersburg, 1830,
p. 125. Ermann's _Archiv_, Part 24, p. 140. ]

[Footnote 225: Compare K.E. v. Baer's paper in _Melanges
Biologiques_, T.V. St. Petersbourg, 1866, p. 691; Middendorff, IV.
i. p. 277; Gavrila Sarytschev's _Achtjaehrige Reise in nordoestlichen
Sibirien_, etc., translated by J.H. Busse, Th. 1, Leipzig, 1806,
p. 106. ]

[Footnote 226: Adams' account is inserted at p. 431 in the work of
Tilesius already quoted. Von Baer gives a detailed account of this
and other important _finds_ of the same nature in the above-quoted
paper in Tome V. of _Melanges Biologiques_; St. Petersbourg,
pp. 645-740. ]

[Footnote 227: Middendorff, IV. 1, p. 272. ]

[Footnote 228: Friedrich Schmidt, _Wissenschastliche Resultate der
sur Aussuchung eines Mammuthcadavers ausgesandten Expedition (Mem.
de l'Acad. de St. Petersbourg_, Ser. VII. T. XVIII. No. 1, 1872). ]

[Footnote 229: Brandt, _Berichte der preussischen Akad. der
Wissenchasten_, 1846, p. 224. Von Schmalhausen, _Bull de l'Acad. de
St. Petersbourg_, T. XXII. p. 291. ]

[Footnote 230: The _find_ is described by Heir Czersky in the
Transactions published by the East Siberian division of the St.
Petersburg Geographical Society; and subsequently by Dr. Leopold von
Schrenc