250 PROBOSOCIDIA. 
so fortunate as to rescue from the destruction that awaited 
them. 
Of the numerous detached bones of the trunk and 
extremities of the Mammoth which have been obtained 
from various British localities, I shall limit myself to a 
notice of a few of the most entire and remarkable examples. 
Of two specimens of the atlas of the Mammoth from the 
newer pliocene deposits near Cromer, in the collection of 
Miss Gurney, the most perfect measures 
In. Lines. 
In breadth A : ; é 4 5 IG 6 
Breadth of the anterior condyles : . : G Le 
Breadth of the posterior ditto : : : 5 | CU 8 
In vertical diameter 5 : : : 10 0 
A vertebra dentata from the freshwater deposits at 
Clacton, Essex, twenty feet above high-water mark, in the 
collection of Mr. Brown of Stanway, measures six inches 
nine lines in transverse diameter, five inches in vertical 
diameter, and has a spinal canal three inches in transverse 
diameter. 
A dorsal vertebra, in the same collection, measures in 
height one foot ten inches, the spinous process being nine 
inches high. The transverse diameter of the vertebra is 
eight inches six lines, that of the spinal canal being three 
inches. 
In Mr. Brown’s collection is also preserved the os sacrum 
of a Mammoth from the freshwater formations of Essex. 
It is of a triangular form; the transverse diameter of the 
fore part of the body of the first sacral vertebra is six inches 
six lines; the diameter of the largest nervous foramen was 
two inches four lines. 
A scapula, with the spine, the supra-spinal plate and 
base broken away, from the same formation, shows the 
characteristic superior breadth of the glenoid articular 
