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upper ones had come into use. The tusks attached at present to the sockets of this skull 

 are from another and smaller Elephant. The length of the skull is 46 inches. 



Purchased. 



2657. The skull of a male Elephant from Malacca. 



The last seven plates of the penultimate molar, and the first four or five plates of the last 

 molar, were in use in both jaws. The length of this skull is 36 inches. 



Presented by Dr. Henderson. 



2658. The skull of a female Elephant, with incomplete occipital condyles and zygo- 

 mata. 



The outer parietes of the molar sockets have been broken away and the teeth removed. 

 There is a well-marked pit for the stylohyal at the back part of the petrotympanic bone. 

 The length of this skull is 35 inches. 



Hunter i an. 



2659. The skull of a male Elephant, wanting the malar bones. 



The fifth or penultimate molars were in use. In the upper jaw two or three of the 

 anterior plates are reduced to their common dentinal base, the summits of the succeeding 

 eleven plates are worn, and there are three or four hinder ones not yet touched. The forma- 

 tive sockets of the succeeding molars are exposed. In the lower jaw thirteen plates are 

 worn in the right ramus, and twelve plates in the left ramus, in addition to the common 

 dentinal base, which is exposed anterior to the summits of the plates ; a gubernacular hole 

 behind the molars leads to the formative socket of the succeeding molar. The length of 

 this skull is 33 inches. 



Hunter ian. 



2660. The skull of a female Elephant. 



The last three or four plates of the penultimate, and the first five or six plates of the last 

 molars, were in use. The length of this skull is 32 inches. 



Hunterian. 



2661. The skull of a female Elephant from Malacca. 



The last nine plates of the penultimate and the first three plates of the last molars were in 

 use. The length of this skull is 32 niches. 



Presented by Dr. Henderson. 



2662. A mutilated skull of a female Elephant. 



This appears to have only the last molar teeth, of which nine plates of the right and seven 

 of the left have come into use ; such plates being succeeded by many others, some of which 

 are hidden in the formative socket. The length of this skull is 32 inches. 



Hunterian. 



