250 Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 



rieties have nothing constant, and are mixed indiscriminate- 

 ly with each other. We find them together in the same herds. 



In Bengal the tusks weigh little more than seventy- 

 two pounds, and they do not exceed fifty in the province of 

 Tipperah, which produces the best elephants. There are 

 tusks in London, however, probably from Pegu, which 

 .weigh 130 pounds. It is in fact from Pegu, and from 

 Cochin-China, that the largest elephants and tusks of the 

 Indian species come. The coast of Malabar furnishes no 

 tusks, according to Pennant, more than four feet long. 



I have drawn up the following table of the length, diame- 

 ter, and weight of the largest tusks, taken from other 

 authors, or actually inspected by myself. 



The tusks from Africa are not distinguished here from 

 those of India, and there is not all the accuracy we could 

 wish in the kinds of measures employed. 



TABLE. 



Authors 

 who have 

 quoted the 

 facts. 



Their authorities and details upon 

 the origin of the tusks. 



Hartenfels, 

 Elephanto- , 

 graphia, < 

 p. 47 & 48 



Camper, 



"Tusk from Sumatra, accordingtoLouis 

 Vartoman, quoted by Jonston 



Tusk mentioned by J. C. Scaliger, 

 « Da Reb. Ind;" 



Tusk from the cabinet of Septal, quo- 

 ted by Herzog _ . . 



Tusk mentioned by Vielhauer, in his 

 " Traite clcs drogues etrangeres" 



Tusk by Louis Barth, — ^' Rer. Indie." 



Tusk, at Basle, brought from India, 

 quoted by Munstcr in his " Cos- 

 mographie" - - - . - 



Idem . - - . 



Another tusk mentioned by J. C 

 Scaliger 



Idem by AI. Cadamosto - 



The largest tusks, according to Gyllius 



A t'!sk in the possession of a merchant 

 of Venice ... 



The tusks taken from Finnus 

 Aurelian, according to Fiav 

 Vopiscus 



Common tusks from Guinea 



d'un Eleph. 



■} 



vius > 



Descr^Anat.^ ^ ^ ^^^ belonging to M. Wolferj, 



merchant in Amsterdam 



9' 



more 



than S 



8' 



10' 



14' 



10' 

 Rom. 



7' 4" of 

 France. 



Tu«k 



