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reason to doubt whether he did get the right tusks. They are 

 nine feet six inches long. 



The skeleton of this specimen, the fame of which may be said 

 to have spread all over the world, is now set up in the Museum 

 of the St. Petersburg Academy, and the skin still remains 

 attached to the head and feet. A part of the skin and some of 

 the hair were sent by Mr. Adams to Sir Joseph Banks, who 

 presented them to the Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons. 1 

 A photograph of the skeleton as it now stands, may be seen 

 on the wall of the Geological Gallery at South Kensington 

 near the specimens of Mammoth tusks. But it should be 

 pointed out that the tusks are put on the wrong way ; for they 

 curve outwards instead of inwards, thus presenting a some- 

 what grotesque appearance. For this reason we have not 

 reproduced the familiar woodcut based on an engraving in the 

 memoir already referred to. 2 But we give, instead, a sketch 

 taken from a photograph (also on the wall in Gallery No. 1.) of 

 a fine skeleton in the Brussels Museum (Fig. 107). Here the 

 tusks are seen correctly inserted. We must also draw the 

 reader's attention to the remarkably fine specimen consisting 

 of the skull and both tusks complete, found at Ilford in Essex. 

 Plate XLVIII. shows a more recent discovery in Siberia. 



Adams's specimen was, Dr. H. Woodward thinks, an old 

 individual, and its tusks had curved upwards so much as to be 



1 A specimen of the hair of a mammoth may be also seen at the Natural 

 History Museum in a tall glass jar. It came from frozen soil, Behring Strait. 

 By the side of this will be seen, in a glass box, a portion of the skin of a 

 mammoth, from the banks of the river Alaseja, Province of Yakutsk, Siberia. 

 It exhibits the under fur, the long hair having entirely disappeared. 



2 Fig. 42 in the Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department 

 of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Crom- 

 well Road, 1904. This most useful guide should be consulted by the reader. 

 Also A Guide to the Elephants, 1908. Each 6d. 



