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the evolution of the Proboscidia is solved at last ! It will not be 

 necessary to go into many details in our attempt to explain this 

 wonderful story. If the reader should go to the Natural History 



FIG. 100. Skull and lower jaw of Mceritherium lyonsi, Middle Eocene of the 

 Fayum, Egypt. (After C. W. Andrews.) 



Museum at South Kensington he will be able to inspect the 

 models of restored skulls which have been made at the Museum. 



FIG. 101. Skull and lower jaw of Palceomastodon beadnelli, from the Upper 

 Eocene of the Fayum, Egypt. (After C. W. Andrews.) 



These are to be seen close to the elephant skeletons in the 

 gallery devoted to fossil mammals. 



The four stages in the history of Elephants may be best 

 illustrated by the four skulls shown in Figs. 100 to 103. The first 

 belongs to the Moeritherium, which takes its name from the old 



