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cavity at its inferior part, and the shortness of the neck 

 supporting- it, which Cuvier has recognized in the scapula 

 of the Siberian Mammoth (fig. 85, s). 



The scapula of the Essex Mammoth gave the following 



dimensions : 



Ft. In. 



From the glenoid cavity to the inferior angle . . 110 



From ditto to the spine . . . . . .04 



From the middle of the spine to the lower costa of the scapula 8 



In a fragment of a Mammoth's scapula from Happis- 

 burgh, in the collection of Mr. Fitch of Norwich, the long 

 diameter of the glenoid articulation was ten inches, its short 

 diameter four inches and a half. The head of the humerus, 

 in the state of an epiphysis, found with the above fragment, 

 measures ten inches and a half in its longest diameter. 

 These parts, notwithstanding their dimensions, have be- 

 longed to an immature specimen of the Mammoth. 



Of the stupendous magnitude to which some individuals, 

 doubtless the old males, of the Elephas primigenius arrived, 

 several fossils from the British drift afford striking evi- 

 dence. In the skeleton of the Mammoth now at St. Pe- 

 tersburg, which was found entire in the frozen soil of the 

 banks of the Lena, the humerus (fig. 85, k) is three feet 

 four inches in length ; that of the skeleton of the large 

 Indian Elephant (Chuny) which was killed at Exeter 

 Change in 1826, is two feet eleven inches in length. In 

 the rich collection of Mammalian remains from the Norfolk 

 coast, belonging to Miss Gurney of North-repps Cottage, 

 near Cromer, there is an entire humerus of the Mammoth 

 which measures four feet five inches in length. 



Subjoined are a few of the dimensions of this enormous 

 bone and of its analogue in the above-mentioned skeleton of 

 the Indian Elephant in the Museum of the College of 

 Surgeons : 



