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thick-plated molars as a distinct species, which V. Meyer 
in his work cites as the Llephas meridionalis. In regard, 
however, to the proposed distinctive name, I may remark 
that the variety of molar on which this species is founded, 
occurs not only in England, but in Siberia, and as far north 
as Eschscholtz Bay.* 
Most of the molars of the Mammoth from North Ame- 
rica are characterized by thinner and more numerous plates 
than those of England, but the difference is not constant. 
The Mammoth’s molar from the Norfolk coast m the 
collection of Miss Gurney, which shows nineteen plates 
in a length of ten inches, equals several of the molars from 
North America in the number of the plates. An upper 
molar of a Mammoth from the gravel of Ballingdon, with 
a total antero-posterior diameter of seven inches, consists 
of twenty plates. Mr. Parkinson describes a molar tooth, 
now in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, from 
Wellsbourne in Warwickshire, in which twenty plates 
exist in a length of six inches and a half; and he figures 
another molar from the till of Essex, which, in a length 
of eight inches and a half, contains twenty-four plates. 
The proportions of the figure in the ‘ Organic Remains,’ 
not being quite accurate, I have given two original views of 
this remarkable molar, (figs. 91 and 92,) which appears to 
have been the fifth in succession in the upper jaw. On 
the other hand, the molars of the Mammoths from 
Eschscholtz Bay, North America, figured by Dr. Buckland, 
manifest the same kind of variety as those from the Eng- 
lish drift; one with a grinding surface, seven inches and 
a half long, exhibiting nineteen plates, whilst another in 
the same extent of grinding surface shows only thirteen 
* See Buckland in ‘ Beechey’s Voyage of the Blossom,’ 4to. On the Fossils of 
Eschscholtz Bay, 4to, pl. 1. (Fossils), fig. 2. 
