_ ANATOMICAL PECULIARITIES OF TEETH. 207 
tissue is of the nature of secondary or osteo-dentine, 
and histologically agrees with that found in the pulp 
chamber of human teeth under abnormal conditions. 
The presence of bullets may be explained in this 
way :—On reference to the section of the tusk in fig. ITI 
Fic. r11.—A diagram explanatory of the mode of eucystment of 
bullets in elephants’ tusks. 
it will be seen that the walls of the pulp chamber are 
thin, hence a bullet fired at an elephant’s head will 
readily enter the pulp; and should it lodge in this chamber 
inflammatory disturbance is the result, and the pulp 
immediately adjacent to the bullet forms irregular bone, 
