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Elephant, and they are all obviously distinct from the peculiar molars 
of the African Elephant :” also page 240 he says, “‘The abraded 
margins of the component plates of the Mammoth’s molars most 
commonly present a slight expansion, often lozenge-shaped, at their 
centre.”’ This is well-observed in the specimen from Selsey. In the 
now advanced state of Paleontology, it is ascertained that the remains 
of the Mammoth are very generally distributed over England, oc- 
curring also in Ireland and Scotland, on the continent, and over all 
parts of Europe. In Asiatic Russia they occur in the greatest abun- 
dance, forming an extensive article of commerce, the tusks producing 
very fine ivory: the remains of the Mammoth are met with also in 
various parts of America, but no authentic relics have been found in 
tropical latitudes. 
The discovery of the carcase and entire skeleton of the Mammoth 
at the mouth of a river in the north of Siberia in the year 1799 has 
thrown much light and information on the nature and habits of this 
animal. A most interesting account was published by Mr. Adams in 
1807 in the fifth vol. of the ‘Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences at St. Petersburgh,’ and an excellent English translation was 
published in 1819. It appears that the Mammoth had a mane on its 
neck, and that its skin was of a dark grey colour covered with a 
reddish wool and coarse long black hairs. A part of the skin and hair 
of this animal was sent by Mr. Adams to Sir Joseph Banks, and is 
preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 
The inference that Cuvier has drawn from this singular discovery 
is, that the carcase of a tropical animal could only have been so trans- 
ported and preserved in ice by some great convulsion of nature: but 
Professor Owen has shown that the structure of the teeth, by which 
the Mammoth differed from existing Elephants, fitted it to subsist on 
the coarser vegetation of temperate latitudes, and that the hair and 
