The Indian or Asiatic Elephant 



As regards the molar or cheek-teeth, there are six 

 pairs developed in each jaw, but only portions of two 

 ot these are in use at one time, and in an aged animal 



Fig. I. — Skull of Indian Elephant, showing the worn masticating surface of the 

 filth pair of molars, behind which are the unworn sixth pair, whose summits 

 (luring life were still in the gum. 



there is but one on each side of both the upper and the 

 lower jaw. These teeth are composed of a number of 

 vertical transverse plates closely packed together ; the 

 number of such plates gradually increasing from the 



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