ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS. Q45 
The finest tusk of a British Mammoth that has come 
under my observation, forms part of the rich collection 
of fossil Mammalian remains obtained from Ilford by the 
late John Gibson, Esq., of Stratford, Essex; this tusk 
measured twelve feet six inches in length, following 
the outward curvature. A tusk disinterred from Mr. 
Hobson’s brick-field at Kingsland, a model of which is 
preserved in the Museum of the Geological Society 
of London, measures nine feet ten inches along the 
outer curve, three feet one inch in a straight line from 
pomt to base, and twenty-nine inches in its greatest cir- 
cumference. 
In the collection of Mr. Brown of Stanway, there is a 
fragment of a tusk of the Mammoth, from the freshwater 
formation at Clacton in Essex, which measures two feet 
in circumference, thus exceeding the size of the largest 
of the tusks brought home by Captain Beechey from 
Eschscholtz Bay, which measured twenty-one inches and a 
half at its largest circumference, nine feet two inches along 
the curve from the root to the tip, part of which was 
broken off, and five feet two inches across the chord of 
its curve. The tusks which were collected in this north- 
ern locality, were of two sizes: ‘five of them large, and 
weighing from one hundred to one hundred and sixty 
pounds each ; and four small.” * 
A very fine tusk of the Mammoth from British strata 
forms part of the remarkable collection of remains of the 
Mammoth obtained by the Rey. J. Layton from the drift 
of the Norfolk coast, near the village of Happisburgh ; 
it was dredged up in 1826, measured nine feet six inches 
in length, and weighed ninety-seven pounds. 
At Knole-sand, near Axminster, about twenty miles 
* Dr. Buckland in the Appendix to “ Beechey’s Voyage,” “ Fossils,” p. 2. 
