THE MAMMOTH 181 
ern Hemisphere and occur abundantly in Si- 
beria and Alaska. There were other elephants 
than the mammoth, and some that exceeded 
him in size, notably Elephas meridionalis of 
southern Europe, and Elephas columli of our 
Southern and Western States, but even the 
largest cannot positively be asserted to have 
exceeded a height of thirteen feet. Tusks 
offer convenient terms of comparison, and 
those of an average fully grown mammoth 
are from eight to ten feet in length; those of 
the famous St. Petersburg specimen and those 
of the huge specimen in Chicago measuring 
respectively nine feet three inches, and nine 
feet eight inches. So far as the writer is 
aware, the largest tusks actually measured are 
two from Alaska, one twelve feet ten inches 
long, weighing 190 pounds, reported by Mr. 
Jay Beach; and another eleven feet long, 
weighing 200 pounds, noted by Mr. T. L. 
Brevig. Compared with these we have the 
big tusk that used to stand on Fulton Street, 
New York, just an inch under nine feet long, 
and weighing 184 pounds, or the largest shown 
at Chicago in 1893, which was seven feet six 
