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40 



Fossil Jaw of Mammoth. 



figure (No. 40), was obtained by a Dover fisherman in 1837, 

 whilst dredging off the Dogger Bank ; and after having been 

 offered for sale to the British Museum and other metropolitan 

 institutions, was purchased by Mr. G. B. Sowerby, in whose 

 possession it has since remained. It is decidedly the finest 

 relic of the kind that I have seen ; and the very faithful re- 

 presentation which I am enabled to publish of it, is due to 

 the skill of Mr. G. B. Sowerby, jun., by whom the drawing 

 on wood was executed. 



The source from which this noble fossil was derived, — the 

 bed of the German Ocean, — is that which has more or less 

 enriched the various museums and private collections through- 

 out the kingdom : indeed the profusion in which the disjoint- 

 ed skeletons of the larger Pachydermata, must lie strewn over 

 the bed of the sea, along the south-eastern coast of England 

 almost baffles conception. Mr. Samuel Woodward, in his 

 Geology of Norfolk, supposes that upwards of two thousand 

 elephants' grinders had been dredged up by the fishermen off 

 one little village (Hasbro') on the Norfolk coast, in the space 

 of thirteen years ; and though he does not supply us with the 

 data upon which he founded his calculation, his statement may 

 readily be believed when one private collector in that neigh- 



