252 , DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



In continuing the examination of each case 

 from left to right, always beginning from the top 

 shelf, we again see fossil remains of elephants, 

 and amongst them the lower part of a femur, 

 lately found in the Bog or Hypanis, and given 

 by the chevalier Raynaud : the dimensions of this 

 bone shew, that the animal to whom it belonged 

 must have been 14 feet high. 



The drawings in the first cases of fossil fish, 

 which represent the head of an elephant from 

 Siberia with its lower jaw, deserve to be men- 

 tioned here. They are a present from the im- 

 perial academy of St. Petersburgh, who had them 

 made for M. Cuvier's work on fossil remains. 



We then see the remains of another great 

 animal called mammouth by the Americans, and 

 to which M. Cuvier has given the name of mas- 

 todon. Most of the pieces were sent to the 

 Museum by M. Thomas Jefferson, then president 

 of the United States ; above the case which con- 

 tains them we see a glazed box, in which are 

 bones of large mastodons, a fine tusk, for which 

 the Museum is also indebted to the generosity of 

 M. Jefferson, and a femur from the Ohio, brought 

 by M. de Longueil in 174- 



We next observe teeth of different species of 

 mastodons, smaller than the preceding, which 

 have been found both in the old and new conti- 



