6 NOTE OK ELEPHAS MEIUDIONALIS. 



was probably unfurnished with hair. Its molars shew a greater 

 width of crown than any of its congeners ; the enamel-plates are 

 thick with wide intervening ridges of cement. The height of the 

 molar is low in comparison to its breadth, the fangs, especially 

 the anterior, one being long and strong. Their discs, when only 

 partially worn down, shew the rings of digitation, in proportion to 

 the amount of wear. The molar belonging to Mr. Kent (here 

 exhibited) had just come into wear, from which an idea may be formed 

 of the appearance of a new unused tooth. The tusks are enormous, 

 commensurate with the rest of the animal ; the alveoli in which 

 the tusks were inserted form elongated massive cylinders. They 

 have a slight outward divergence, which is obviously necessary, as 

 otherwise the tusks would interfere with each other had the 

 distal end of the alveoli converged. The osteology of JElephas 

 meridionalis agrees in its general character with those of the other 

 two species, although differing materially in size. Both the 

 shoulder and pelvic-girdles of the Dewlish Elephants, which were 

 fortunately entire, corresponded nearly with the dimensions of 

 this species, given by Mr. Leith Adams in his Monograph 

 of British Fossil Elephants. In spite of the care and pains 

 I took to remove the abundant remains from the bed, by applica- 

 tions of hot liquid glue, fish-gluten, thick coatings of plaster of 

 Paris, and strong supports, the disintegrating effects of the 

 impalpable sand, which filled up every osseous cell, neutralised it 

 all ; many vanished before our eyes into " dust and ashes." 



ELEPHAS ANTIQUUS. 



This Elephant also preceded the Mammoth in point of time 

 and was its contemporary as late as postglacial times. It 

 appeal's not to have had so wide a range ; its remains having not 

 been notified from a locality of higher latitude than 54 degrees 

 north, in North Western Europe. It survived the Glacial Period 

 and is found abundantly in Southern Europe, on the south side 

 of the Alps and of the Pyrenees, but it is only on the northern 

 side of these ranges its remains have been found with those of 



