254 PROBOSCIDIA. 
A femur of the Mammoth, from the drift gravel at 
Abingdon, is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. It is 
remarkable for its fine state of preservation, and exhibits 
the same character of the extinct species as the foregoing 
specimen. 
Captain Byam Martin has recorded the followimg dimen- 
sions of the femur of a Mammoth, which was trawled up in 
twenty to twenty-five fathoms water about midway between 
Yarmouth and the coast of Holland. 
Inches. 
Entire length : c : : : 49 
Circumference of the head of the bone : . 24 
<5 of the middle of the shaft . : 18 
~ above the condyles : : 5 | Oe 
Width across the head and great trochanter : 18 
The femur of the Mammoth, described by the notable 
French surgeon Habicot, in his ‘‘ Gigantosteologie, 1613,” 
as the thigh-bone of Theutobochus, king of the Cimbrians, 
which was said to be five feet in length, indicates a speci- 
men larger than that to which the humerus from Cromer 
belonged. M. de Blainville is, however, of opinion that 
the femur in question belonged to a Mastodon. 
In the skeleton (fig. 85), i is the iliac bone, ¢s the 
ischium, f the femur or thigh-bone, ¢ the tibia or leg-bone, 
fi the fibula or small bone of the leg, ¢a the tarsus or ankle- 
bones. 
Strata and Localities——Of all the extinct Mammalia 
which have left their fossil remains in British strata, no 
species was more abundant or more widely distributed than 
the Mammoth or Hlephas primigenius. 
Wherever the last general geological force has left traces 
of its operations upon the present surface, in the form 
of drift or unstratified transported fragments of rock and 
gravel, and wherever the contemporary or immediately 
