478 PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONS^- ' [aNNO I767. 



phant, the surface of a fine shining chestnut colour, and a recent look ; and a 

 great pronged tooth, larger than any of the above, which were also brought from 

 the same licking-place. 



XLVII. Sequel to the Foregoing Account of the Large Fossil Teeth. By P. 



Collinson, F.R.S. p. 468. 



~ In his observations on the long teeth and grinders, at the last meeting of the 

 ft. s., Mr. C. forebore giving his sentiments on these remains of great animals 

 found at the Great Lick, near the river Ohio, being willing the Society should 

 determine for themselves. As he perceived one of the long teeth, or tusks, was 

 channelled or ribbed, near the larger end, he was in some doubt if peculiar to 

 the elephant. - To satisfy himself, he went to a warehouse, where there were 

 teeth of all sorts and sizes for sale; on examining them he found as many ribbed 

 or channelled as plain and smooth ; so that now he has no difficulty to pronounce 

 them agreeing in all respects with the elephants' teeth from Africa and Asia, 

 ' But as the biting or grinding teeth, found with the others, have no affinity 

 to the molares of the elephant, he concludes that they with the long teeth be- 

 long to another species of elephant, not yet known; or else that they are the 

 remains of some vast animal, that has the long teeth or tusks of the elephant, 

 with large grinders peculiar to that species, being different in size and shape from 

 any other animal yet known. He had one of these grinders, that weighed near 

 4 pounds, with as fine an enamel on it as if just taken out of the head of the 

 creature. 



The elephant is wholly supported by vegetables; and the animal to which 

 these grinding teeth belong, by their^make and form, seemed designed for the 

 biting and breaking off the branches of trees and shrubs for its sustenance; and 

 he concludes from analogy, that the great heavy unweildy animals, such as ele- 

 phants, and the rhinoceros, &c. are not carnivorous, being unable, from want of 

 agility and swiftness, to pursue their prey, so are wholly confined to vegetable 

 food; and for the same reason, this great creature, to which these teeth belong, 

 wherever it exists, is probably supported by browzing on trees and shrubs, and 

 other vegetable food. 



One of these large pronged teeth weighed 3-|-lb.; and was 18 inches round, 

 and 4 inches thick. 



XLIX. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the 

 Royal Societij by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1 7Q6, pursuant 

 to the Direction of Sir Hans Shane, Bart. By fVm. Hudson, p. 470. 



This is the 45th presentation of this kind, completing to the number of 2250 

 different plants. 



