298 PROBOSCIDIA. 
Elephant ; the cranium is flatter, and, from the smaller de- 
velopment of the frontal air-cells, it presents a less intelligent 
character. ‘The almost complete skeleton of the Mastodon 
giganteus, so well known to the public as the “ Missouri Le- 
viathan,” when exhibited, with a most grotesquely distorted 
and exaggerated collocation of the bones, in 1842 and 18438, 
in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, but now mounted, in strict 
accordance with its natural proportions, in the British Mu- 
seum, has enabled me to present, in the subjoined cut, as 
perfect a restoration of the Mastodon, as that of the Mam- 
moth given at the head of the preceding section. 
Fig. 102. 
Skeleton of the Mastodon gigantcus, from Missouri, in the British Museum. 
