160 Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 
The figure published by Allen Moulin * is copied inte 
the Elephantography of Hartenfels, and into the Amphi- 
theatrum Zootomicum of Valentin; but it 1s so badly exe- 
ented that nothing precise can be learned from it, nor eyen 
the species to which it belongs. 
That of Patrick Blair f belongs, it is true, to the species 
of the Indies; but although designed after a very young ani- 
mal, the epiphyses of whith were not cemented, it is very 
badly done. The shoulder blades are wrong placed, while 
six toes are given to the left fore-foot and only four to the 
hind ones, &c. 
Those of Perrault ¢ and Daubenton § were both made from 
a skeleton, stil in preservation, of the African species. The 
first of these is well enough, but the head is represented as 
too small; the second is not above mediocrity. 
That of Camper |] is rather of the Indian species, like that 
of Blair; but although better designed than the others, it 
is done from a very young animal ca hich had not acquired 
its full form, and from the bones of which the ligaments 
had not been removed. 
Iam now occupied, along with M. Huet, in the execu- 
tion of some grand drawings on the anatomy of the elephant, 
which, I hope, will tend much to increase our knowledge of 
that branch of science when they are given to the public. 
In the méan time a detail of some of the observations I have 
made cannot fail to be interesting, particularly such of them 
as regard the increase and structure of the teeth. What I 
have to remark on that subject, however necessary to the 
history of fossils, is of a still more gencral importance in 
another respect, as explaining the history of the teeth in 
men and animals; and the immense size of the teeth of an 
* Anatomical Account of the Elephant accidentally burnt in Dublin, &e, 
London 1682, 72 pp. 4to. with two engravings. 
4 Phil. Trans. vol. xxvii. no. 325, June 1710. Plate IL. 
+ Mem. pour servit 4 l’Hist. des Anim, iii partie, Plate XXIII. It was 
published i in 1734. 
§ Hist. Nat. in gto. tome xi. Plate IV. 
|| Descrip. Anat. d’un Elephant. 
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