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MASTODON ANGUSTIDENS. 77 
Smith, in his ‘Strata Identified, was reported to have been 
found at Whitlngham; and, when at Scarborough last 
summer, I put the question to him, and he assured me 
that it was so found.”* Whitlingham is a village on the 
right bank of the Yare, within five miles of Norwich, 
where the fluvio-marine crag is well developed. 
Mr. Morris, in his valuable ‘Catalogue of British 
Fossils,’ refers the tooth in question, I know not on what 
authority, to “ Horstead, Norfolk.” I have only recently 
ascertained that the tooth itself forms part of a collection 
of the late Mr. Smith’s fossils, purchased by the British 
Museum, but not yet arranged, or brought into public 
view. 
Mr. Konig kindly favoured me with the opportunity of 
examining the tooth, which in the manuscript catalogue 
of Mr. Smith’s collection, is thus noticed :—‘‘ Middle- 
sized grinder of A/astodon, with numerous subdivided irre- 
gularly shaped mammille, one half of which only is worn ; 
ivory converted into a brown semiopal-like mass. Found 
in Norfolk.” Mr. Kénig at the same time informed me, 
that when he exhibited this tooth to Cuvier, during his 
visit to the British Museum, the great anatomist warned 
him against placing implicit reliance on the statement of 
its British origin; and referred to the molar tooth of the 
Mastodon angustidens from Peru, which Mr. Smith’s speci- 
men closely resembles. The similarity is not greater, 
however, than that which the same specimen presents to 
the continental Mastodon’s grinders, figures of which have 
been already cited from Cuvier’s great work; and the 
same resemblance may be affirmed in regard to the smaller 
varieties of the last upper molar tooth of the Mastodon 
Slibspelioz. 
+ 8yo. Van Voorst, 1843, p. 213. 
