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specimen (glazed case E on plan) consisting of the skull and 

 both tusks complete, found at Ilford in Essex. 



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

 and its tusks had curved upwards so much as to be of little use. 

 In younger ones they were less curved. The hair that still 

 remains on the skin of the St. Petersburg specimen is of the 

 colour of the camel, very thick-set and curled in locks. Bristles 

 of a dark colour are interspersed, some reddish, and some nearly 

 black. The colour of the skin is a dull black, as in living 

 elephants (see restoration, Plate XX.). 



Remains of the Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) have been 

 found in great numbers in the British Isles. A list of localities 

 (from Mr. Leith Adams's monograph on fossil elephants) is given 

 in the Appendix, but even this might be extended. Mr. Samuel 

 Woodward calculated that upward of two thousand grinders of 

 elephants have been dredged up during a period of thirteen years 

 upon the oyster-bed off Hasborough, on the Norfolk coast. But 

 many of these doubtless belong to other species of older date, 

 such as Elephas antiquus. 



Dr. Bree, of Colchester, says that the sea-bottom off Dunkirk, 

 whence he has made a collection, is so full of mammalian remains 

 that the sailors speak of it as "the Burying-ground." 



The remains of the Mammoth occur over a very large 

 geographical area fully half the globe. 



By far the most important discovery of a frozen Mammoth is 

 that of a young Russian engineer, Benkendorf by name, who 

 was an eye-witness of its resurrection, though, most unfortunately, 

 he was unable either to procure his specimen, as Mr. Adams did, 

 or to make drawings of it. Being employed by the Russian 

 Government in making a survey of the coast off the mouth of 

 the Lena and Indigirka rivers, he was despatched up the latter 

 river in 1846, in command of a small steam-cutter. The following 

 is a translation of the account which he wrote to a friend in 

 Germany. 



