500 



2860. A corresponding molar from the left side of the lower jaw of an African 

 Elephant. 



It consists of nine plates, of which nine have been in use. 



Mus. Brit. 



Hunterian. 



2861. A succeeding molar, right side, lower jaw, of an African Elephant. 



It consists of nine plates, of which the first four have been in use. 



2862. Part of the germ of a lower molar of an African Elephant. 



It includes five plates, the first two of which have coalesced at their base. 



Hunterian. 



2863. One moiety of a portion of a much-worn molar, vertically and longitudinally 

 bisected, and polished. Presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. 



2864. The other moiety of flie same section, unpolished. 



Presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. 



2865. One moiety of a vertically and longitudinally bisected molar of an extinct 

 Elephant (Elephas Hysudricus). 



The component plates resemble in thickness those of the Elephant, but are of greater depth : 

 twelve of these plates are shown in the present section, six of which have been in use. 



Presented by Dr. Falconer, F.R.S. 



Order PERISSODACTYLA (Pachydermes a doigts impaires, Cuv.). 



Genus Tapirus. 



Dental formula :-i g, c !=[, p g, ^=42. 



2866. The skeleton of the Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus). 



The vertebral formula is : 7 cervical, 18 dorsal, 5 lumbar, 6 sacral. Of the caudal ver- 

 tebrae only four ai'e preserved. The pleurapophysial part of the transverse process extends 

 forwards in the third cervical, and underlaps that of the second : the corresponding part of 

 the transverse process progressively expands in the succeeding vertebrae to the sixth, where it 

 forms a broad hatchet-shaped plate of bone directed downwards and a little outwards. In 

 the seventh cervical the transverse process consists of a diapophysis only and is therefore im- 



