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tion of this tusk is now preserved in the museum at 
Bridlington, 
The tusks of the Mammoth are so well preserved in the 
frozen drift of Siberia, that they have long been collected 
in great numbers for the purposes of commerce. In the 
account of the Mammoth’s bones and teeth of Siberia, pub- 
lished more than a century ago in the Philosophical Trans- 
actions,* tusks are cited which weighed two hundred 
pounds each, and “are used as ivory, to make combs, boxes, 
and such other things; being but a little more brittle, and 
easily turning yellow by weather or heat.” From that 
time to the present there has been no intermission in the 
supply of ivory furnished by the extinct Elephants of a 
former world ; and Iam informed by Mr. Warburton, M.P., 
President of the Geological Society, that Mammoths’ tusks 
are now imported from Russia to Liverpool, and find a ready 
sale to comb-makers and other workers in ivory. 
Bones.—There is reason to believe that instances have 
occurred in which a more or less entire skeleton of the 
Mammoth might have been recovered from British strata, 
if due care and attention had been devoted to the task. 
About three years ago, the workmen in a brick-ground, 
near the village of Grays in Essex, disinterred a quantity of 
bones of an enormous Mammoth, which they broke up as 
they were discovered, and sold the fragments for three- 
halfpence a pound to a dealer in old bones. This traffic 
went on weekly for more than half a year, and accidentally 
came to the knowledge of Mr. R. Ball, F.G.S., a sedulous 
collector of fossil remains, who recovered from the workmen 
some magnificent bones of the fore foot, with portions of 
the scapula and ribs. I had the account from Mr. Ball, to 
whom I am indebted for casts of the bones which he was 
* No 446, 4to, 1737, p. 128. 
