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ern Hemisphere and occur abundantly in Si- 

 beria and Alaska. There were other elephants 

 than the mammoth, and some that exceeded 

 him in size, notably Elcphas meiidionalis of 

 southern Europe, and Elcphas columhi of our 

 Southern and Western States, but even the 

 largest cannot positively be asserted to have 

 exceeded a height of thirteen feet. Tusks 

 offer convenient terms of comparison, and 

 those of an average fully grown mammoth 

 are from eight to ten feet in length ; those of 

 the famous St. Petersburg specimen and those 

 of the huge specimen in Chicago measuring 

 respectively nine feet three inches, and nine 

 feet eight inches. So far as the writer is 

 aware, the largest tusks actually measured are 

 two from Alaska, one twelve feet ten inches 

 long, weighing 190 pounds, reported by JNIr. 

 Jay Beach; and another eleven feet long, 

 weighing 200 pounds, noted by ^Ir. T. L. 

 Brevig. Compared with these we have the 

 big tusk that used to stand on Fulton Street, 

 New York, just an inch under nine feet long, 

 and weighing 184 pounds, or the largest shown 

 at Chicago in 1893, which was seven feet six 



