Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Mexico City Sep 5 Wednesday.
Visited the School of Mines opposite the
grand new Post Office building.
In the entrance of the lower floor are large
magnificent meteorites. Hacienda de S. Ignacio
10,100 Kilo. Chupaderos 6767 Kilos. Jacatecas 78
Kil. De Cempoton 332 Kil. Chupaderos 14,114 kilos.
A good campasse of an Aplystrum found
in the rally of Tequixquiteac.
Considerable teeth and tusks of Elephas. The
horse jaws and skulls of Bison
A good skull of pregnant Elephas primigenius
Americana in Cempoton, Tequixquiteac. The material is
greyish cream colored soft sandy material.
Also mastodon material.
A fair find bone of Bison latifrons again
for the rally of Tequixquiteac. In fact all
the Quaternary material is for this place.
Castillo's only give five breccias for
Carbon to the near in the pits between Tehuacan
and the north end Oaxaca on the east. The
areas are all smaller.
In general the collections are fair but not
well shown nor are the minerals of the fine crystalline