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so fortunate as to rescue from the destruction that awaited 

 them. 



Of the numerous detached bones of the trunk and 

 extremities of the Mammoth which have been obtained 

 from various British localities, I shall limit myself to a 

 notice of a few of the most entire and remarkable examples. 

 Of two specimens of the atlas of the Mammoth from the 

 newer pliocene deposits near Cromer, in the collection of 

 Miss Gurney, the most perfect measures 



In. Lines. 

 In breadth . . . . . .166 



Breadth of the anterior condyles . . 7 10 



Breadth of the posterior ditto . . . .98 



In vertical diameter . . . . 100 



A vertebra dentata from the freshwater deposits at 

 Clacton, Essex, twenty feet above high-water mark, in the 

 collection of Mr. Brown of Stanway, measures six inches 

 nine lines in transverse diameter, five inches in vertical 

 diameter, and has a spinal canal three inches in transverse 

 diameter. 



A dorsal vertebra, in the same collection, measures in 

 height one foot ten inches, the spinous process being nine 

 inches high. The transverse diameter of the vertebra is 

 eight inches six lines, that of the spinal canal being three 

 inches. 



In Mr. Brown's collection is also preserved the os sacrum 

 of a Mammoth from the freshwater formations of Essex. 

 It is of a triangular form ; the transverse diameter of the 

 fore part of the body of the first sacral vertebra is six inches 

 six lines ; the diameter of the largest nervous foramen was 

 two inches four lines. 



A scapula, with the spine, the supra-spinal plate and 

 base broken away, from the same formation, shows the 

 characteristic superior breadth of the glenoid articular 



