252 PROBOSCIDIA. 
El. primigenius. El. Indicus. 
Ft. In. Lin. Ft. In. Lin. 
Humerus, entire length 4 5 0 Ali 0 
Circumference at the middle mB % & 1 6 
Ditto at proximal end C 3 5) 2 10 2,8) 0 
Breadth of distalend . : : si 2 0 10 6 
From summit of supinator ridge to end of outer 2, 7 9 1 08 8G 
condyle. : . : : aS 
The above gigantic fossil bone was found in 1836, after 
a very high tide, partially exposed in the cliff, composed of 
interblended blue clay and red gravel, near the village 
of Bacton in Norfolk. The outer crust of the bone is much 
shattered; it manifests the specific distinction of the 
humerus of the Mammoth in the relatively shorter propor- 
tions of the great supinator ridge, as is shown by the last 
admeasurement, and the bicipital canal is also relatively 
narrower. 
A portion of a large tibia was obtained from the same bed 
in 1841; this bone likewise is in Miss Gurney’s collection. 
A Mammoth’s humerus, of dimensions very nearly equal 
to those of the great specimen in Miss Gurney’s col- 
lection, was obtained under the following circumstances 
described by Captain Byam Martin. “In 1837, while 
trawling in mid-channel between Dover and Calais, be- 
tween the two shoals, called the Varn and Ridge, covered 
at low tide with twenty fathoms water, a fisherman sud- 
denly encountered a heavy mass, which proved to consist 
of enormous bones; the net broke, but a humerus, which I 
purchased, was secured.”* Such occurrences recall to mind 
the adventures of the fishermen narrated in the Arabian 
Nights; but the fancy of the eastern romancer falls short 
of the reality of this hawling up, in British seas, of Ele- 
phants more stupendous than those of Africa or Ceylon. 
* Loe. cit. p. 162. 
