266 PROBOSCIDIA. 



The dampness of the spot where the animal had lain so 

 long, had in some degree destroyed the hair. The entire 

 skeleton, from the fore part of the skull to the end of the 

 mutilated tail, measured sixteen feet four inches; its height 

 was nine feet four inches. The tusks measured along the 

 curve nine feet six inches, and in a straight line from the 

 base to the point three feet seven inches. 



Mr. Adams collected the bones, and had the satisfaction 

 to find the other scapula, which had remained, not far off. 

 He next detached the skin on the side on which the animal 

 had lain, which was well preserved ; the weight of the 

 skin was such that ten persons found great difficulty in 

 transporting it to the shore. After this, the ground was 

 dug in different places to ascertain whether any of its 

 bones were buried, but principally to collect all the hairs 

 which the white bears had trod into the ground while de- 

 vouring the flesh, and more than thirty-six pounds' weight 

 of hair were thus recovered. The tusks were repurchased 

 at Jatusk, and the whole expedited thence to St. Peters- 

 burg ; the skeleton is now mounted in the museum of the 

 Petropolitan Academy, as it is represented at p. 217.* 



It might have been expected that the physiological con- 

 sequences deducible from the organization of the extinct 



* A part of the skin, and some of the hair of this animal, were sent by Mr. 

 Adams to Sir Joseph Banks, who presented them to the Museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. The hair is entirely separated from the skin, excepting in 

 one small part, where it still remains firmly attached. It consists of two sorts, 

 common hair and bristles, and of each there are several varieties, differing in 

 length and thickness. That remaining fixed on the skin is thick-set and crisply 

 curled ; it is interspersed with a few bristles, about three inches long, of a dark 

 reddish colour. Among the separate parcels of hair are some rather redder than 

 the short hair just mentioned, about four inches long, and some bristles nearly 

 black, much thicker than horse-hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long. 

 The skin, when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smell. It is 

 now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick. Its 

 colour is the dull black of the living Elephants. 



