EXTINCT ANIMALS 



we are continually coming across tusks and 

 teeth. In the Natural History Museum there 

 is a whole skull, with enormous tusks, which was 

 dug up in a brick-field at Ilford in East London 

 about twenty-five years ago. From this brick- 



FiG. 61. — Engraving on a piece of an antler found in a cave in 

 Switzerland. It represents very accurately a Reindeer. 



field I used to get many remains of mammoth, 

 rhinoceros and hippopotamus when I was a 

 boy. When this mammoth's skull was found 

 by the workmen, the authorities of the British 

 Museum of that day sent down a man to remove 

 the specimen with the greatest care, and it is 

 now at the Natural History Museum. 



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