16 NOTE OX ELEPHAS MERIDIONALIS. 



seen the two molars in the Salisbury Museum already alluded to 

 labelled Eleplias meridiondlis, visited the locality, and by a 

 fortunate coincidence I was his companion during the limited time 

 at his disposal alx)ut three hours, when he found a portion of a 

 nearly worn down molar. Acting under his advice I continued the 

 search systematically for sveral days, on the first day I obtained the 

 border and fossa of a massive prescapular, the ridge, spine, and 

 posterior border absent. This fragment, for so it might be 

 called, was three feet six inches long. Close by was another bone, 

 which might have been an ilium ; it had no medullary cavity, its 

 length was one foot nine inches, constricted towards the middle, 

 where its breadth was reduced from one foot one inch at the 

 extremity, to only eight inches and a-half. A diagonal ridge 

 traversed the bone from end to end. All attempts to save these 

 bones were unavailing. The usual consistent adhesiveness of the 

 thin liquid glue application failed to consolidate the bone, for the 

 cells were filled with the impalpable, penetrating sand-grains. 

 The next find was a left alveolus, three feet two inches long ; the 

 diameter of the orifice to receive the tusk was five and a-half inches, 

 which corresponded with the diameter of the anterior end of a 

 tusk which was lying near it, its posterior end expanded into a 

 thin, wing-like plate. The remains of other tusks were profusely 

 disseminated in the upper part of the fossiliferous bed. 



The following is a list of the remains found in the year 1888 : 



1. A left humerus 4 feet long. 



2. A radius 2 feet long. 



3. An ulna, length 2 feet 2 inches. 



4. An entire scapula with ridge and recurved process. 



5. The anterior border and fossa of a scapula 3 feet 6 inches 

 long, and 9 inches from the border to the ridge and spine. 



6. The left side of a pelvis, ischium missing ; length of ilium and 

 outer border 3 feet 10 inches. 



7. An ischium (?) detached ; length (transverse) 2 feet 2 inches, 

 breath at broadest end 1 foot 1 inch, at most constricted part 

 8 inches. 



