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of Seonee, suffered from an aggravated type of this malformation. He 
was relieved by an ingenious mahout, who managed to saw off the 
projecting portion of the tooth, which now forms a paper-weight. In 
my account of Seonee I have given a detailed description of the 
mode in which the operation was effected. 
The skull of the elephant possesses many striking features quite 
different from any other animal. The brain in bulk does not greatly 
exceed that of a man, therefore the rest of the enormous head is formed 
of cellular bone, affording a large space for the attachment of the 
Section of Elephant’s Skull. 
6, Brain; s, Skull; 2, Narial passage; wz, Molar; ¢, Tusk. 
powerful muscles of the trunk, and at the same time combining lightness 
with strength. This cellular bone grows with the animal, and is in great 
measure absent at birth. In the young elephant the brain nearly fills 
the head, and the brain-case increases but little in size during growth, 
but the cellular portion progresses rapidly with the growth of the animal, 
and is piled up over the frontals for a considerable height, giving the 
appearance of a bold forehead, the brain remaining in a small space at 
the base of the skull, close to its articulation with the neck. According 
to Professor Flower, the cranial cavity is elongated and depressed, more 
so in the African than the Indian elephant. The tentorial plane is 
