GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING. 



Monday, May 7, 1860. 

 W. A. HARRISON, Esq., President, in the Chaib. 



The following Gentleman was duly elected a Member of the 

 Society : — 



Mr. Thomas Bell, F.KS., P.L.S., &c. . 



Mr. Arnold Rogers presented his Portrait to the Society. 



Mr. Owen exhibited models of a case of partial edentition. 



Dr. Levison presented to the Museum some casts of mouths defi- 

 cient in Teeth. 



Mr. Mummery read the following continuation of his paper — 



On the Structure and Adajptation of the Teeth in 

 the Lower Animals, and their relation to the 

 Human Dentition, 



We will now turn our attention to the largest 

 of all existing terrestrial animals, the elephant, a 

 genus which forms the only living type of that 

 extensive family of mammiferous quadrupeds 

 which once peopled a large portion of the earth's 

 surface — the true proboscidians. 



The dentition of this enormous animal is very 

 remarkable. There are no canines in either 

 maxilla, and the lower incisors are also absent, 

 while the immense tusks (identified as incisors by 

 their implantation in the intermaxillary bones) 



