CHAPTER VI. 

 PART I. 



PLAN OP ROOM VI. SYNOPSIS OP CONTENTS ELEPHANTS AND MASTODONS 

 FROM THE SEWALIK HILLS MAMMALIAN BONES FROM CAVES IN BRAZIL 

 FOSSIL HUMAN SKELETON MAMMALIAN BONES FROM KIRKDALE, TOR- 

 QUAY, AND GAILENREUTH CAVES PAL^OTHERIA AND ANOPLOTHERIA 



MEGATHERIUM ELEPHAS GANESA MASTODON OHIOTICUS TUSKS AND 



BONES OF MAMMOTHS AND MASTODONS FOSSIL ECHINODERMS, CRUSTA- 

 CEANS, AND BRACHIOPODA FOSSIL ZOOPHYTES FOSSIL ALLIGATOR OP 



HORDWELL DINOTHERI0M HIPPURITES AND SPHERULITES. 



WE now enter the last room of this noble Gallery of Organic 

 Remains ; it is in a great measure appropriated to the fossil 

 relics of extinct mammalia, and especially to those of the 

 colossal Proboscidean Pachyderms, and Edentata. The coup 

 d'oeil is very imposing, for the model of the gigantic Mega- 

 therium arrests the attention of the visitor on entering the 

 apartment, and beyond it stands the fine skeleton of the 

 Mastodon of the Ohio ; and between these two grand monu- 

 ments of a former state of the globe, is the skull with its 

 enormous tusks, of an extinct species of Elephant from India ; 

 while the surrounding Cases exhibit a splendid collection of 

 crania, jaws, teeth, tusks, and bones, of various species of the 

 same tribes of mammalia. 



The history of these highly interesting objects must be 

 familiar to the intelligent reader, for almost every one has 

 heard of the Mammoths entombed in ice in Siberia, 1 of the 

 Mastodons swamped in the ancient morasses of North America, 2 

 of the colossal beings of the Sloth tribe, whose skeletons are 

 imbedded in the alluvial plains of the Pampas, 3 and of the 

 fossil remains of similar animals, together with those of other 

 genera of Mammalia and Reptiles, in the tertiary deposits of 



* "Wonders of Geology," p. 152. 2 Ibid. p. 156. 3 Ibid. p. 164. 



