464 PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP. VI. 



ELEPHANTS. MASTODONS. 



1. Elephas Namadicus, from India. 7. Mastodon Andium, South America. 



planifrons, 



3. insignis, 



4. Ganesa, 



5. bombifrons, 



Hysudricus,- 



A magnificent cranium and tusks of 

 this species ; and a rich series of 

 teeth from Buenos Ayres. 



8. Mastodon Ohipticus, North America. 



9. Perimensis, India. 



In Case A, there are likewise teeth 10. Sivalensis, 



and tusks of the European fossil 11. latidens, 



Elephants; viz. angustidens, Europe. 



Elephas priscus. longirostris, . 



meridionalis. Arvernensis, 1 



primigenius. The crown of a molar tooth of this 



These specimens are not labelled. species, from the Crag, figured by 



Dr. Smith in the frontispiece of his 

 " Strata identified by Organic Re- 

 mains," is placed in this Case. 



Watt-case O, is devoted to fossil mammalia from the caves of Minas 

 Geraes in Brazil. The upper division contains some fine bones of the 

 Scelidotherium, an animal allied to the Megatherium, and portions of 

 the dermal cuirass of Glyptodon, and Chlamydotherium ; and bones of a 

 large species of Machairodus. In the lower compartment are similar re- 

 mains, and bones and teeth of existing mammalia from the same caves, 

 belonging to species of Monkey, Opossum, &c.; with these are associated 

 shells incrusted with stalagmite of a large existing terrestrial mollusk 

 (Bulimus). 



Wall-case D. A fossil HUMAN SKELETON, imbedded in modern con- 

 cretionary limestone, from the sea-shore of the island of Guadaloupe ; 

 presented by Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane. The 

 table in front of this Case, is a slab of the rock in which the skeleton 

 was imbedded. 



Wall-case E. A very choice collection of skulls, jaws, teeth, &c. of 

 Bears, Hyenas, and other carnivora, from the caves of Gailenreuth in 

 Germany, Kirkdale in Yorkshire, and Torquay in Devonshire. 



Wall-case F. In this Case, which is on the right of the entrance 

 from Koom Y. (see plan, ante, p. 462), are specimens and models of 

 Palasotheria, Anoplotheria, and allied extinct genera of pachyderms from 

 the eocene deposits of France ; principally from the gypsum quarries at 

 Montmartre, near Paris. Several of the specimens, and the greater 

 part of the models, were formerly in my collection, having been given 

 me by Baron Cuvier. On the uppermost shelf there is a fine example 

 of the upper and lower jaws with teeth, collected and presented to me 

 by M. Constant Prevost: and a beautiful lower jaw imbedded in lime- 

 stone, which I obtained from a quarry at Montmartre, and succeeded in 

 exposing it in its present perfect state. 



1 M. Arvernensis, so named from Auvergne, the district in which 

 this species was first identified. I would here supply an omission in the 

 account of the Fossil Mammalia from the Tertiary deposits of Auvergne, 

 given in a previous Chapter; ante, p. 353. The collection should have 

 been described as having been formed in part by M. Croizet; most of 

 the specimens exhibited were purchased of this eminent observer; many 

 of M. Pomel's are not yet arranged. 



