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tion of this tusk is now preserved in the museum at 

 Bridlington. 



The tusks of the Mammoth are so well preserved in the 

 frozen drift of Siberia, that they have long been collected 

 in great numbers for the purposes of commerce. In the 

 account of the Mammoth's bones and teeth of Siberia, pub- 

 lished more than a century ago in the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions,* tusks are cited which weighed two hundred 

 pounds each, and " are used as ivory, to make combs, boxes, 

 and such other things ; being but a little more brittle, and 

 easily turning yellow by weather or heat? 1 From that 

 time to the present there has been no intermission in the 

 supply of ivory furnished by the extinct Elephants of a 

 former world ; and I am informed by Mr. Warburton, M.P., 

 President of the Geological Society, that Mammoths' 1 tusks 

 are now imported from Russia to Liverpool, and find a ready 

 sale to comb-makers and other workers in ivory. 



Bones. There is reason to believe that instances have 

 occurred in which a more or less entire skeleton of the 

 Mammoth might have been recovered from British strata, 

 if due care and attention had been devoted to the task. 

 About three years ago, the workmen in a brick-ground, 

 near the village of Grays in Essex, disinterred a quantity of 

 bones of an enormous Mammoth, which they broke up as 

 they were discovered, and sold the fragments for three- 

 halfpence a pound to a dealer in old bones. This traffic 

 went on weekly for more than half a year, and accidentally 

 came to the knowledge of Mr. R. Ball, F.G.S., a sedulous 

 collector of fossil remains, who recovered from the workmen 

 some magnificent bones of the fore foot, with portions of 

 the scapula and ribs. I had the account from Mr. Ball, to 

 whom I am indebted for casts of the bones which he was 

 * No 44(5, 4to, 1737, p. 128. 



