By Glenn L. Jepsen

Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003

Members of the teaching and research staffs in the colleges and museums in New Jersey are very eager to learn more about mastodons and also about more mastodons. We will he grateful if future discoveries are reported promptly so that the processes of preservation and study can be continued as successfully as possible within the state. Ancient mastodons are one of our educational treasures and should be treated with care and respect. They are both valueless and priceless (although one tooth was once sold for a gill of rum). It is our privilege, if we wish, to "waken the slumbering ages," and we will find the fun of work and companionship as well as the exhilaration of knowledge each time we discover a fossil skeleton and clothe it with life and color and beauty for future students to enjoy, perhaps for hundreds or thousands or millions of years, in the endless flow of time.

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