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Smith, in his ' Strata Identified, 1 was reported to have been 

 found at Whitlingham ; and, when at Scarborough last 

 summer, I put the question to him, and he assured me 

 that it was so found."* Whitlingham is a village on the 

 right bank of the Yare, within five miles of Norwich, 

 where the fluvio-marine crag is well developed. 



Mr. Morris, in his valuable ' Catalogue of British 

 Fossils,'^ refers the tooth in question, I know not on what 

 authority, to " Horstead, Norfolk. 1 ' I have only recently 

 ascertained that the tooth itself forms part of a collection 

 of the late Mr. Smiths fossils, purchased by the British 

 Museum, but not yet arranged, or brought into public 

 view. 



Mr. Konig kindly favoured me with the opportunity of 

 examining the tooth, which in the manuscript catalogue 

 of Mr. Smith's collection, is thus noticed: "Middle- 

 sized grinder of Mastodon, with numerous subdivided irre- 

 gularly shaped mammillae, one half of which only is worn ; 

 ivory converted into a brown semiopal-like mass. Found 

 in Norfolk." Mr. Konig at the same time informed me, 

 that when he exhibited this tooth to Cuvier, during his 

 visit to the British Museum, the great anatomist warned 

 him against placing implicit reliance on the statement of 

 its British origin ; and referred to the molar tooth of the 

 Mastodon angustidens from Peru, which Mr. Smith's speci- 

 men closely resembles. The similarity is not greater, 

 however, than that which the same specimen presents to 

 the continental Mastodon's grinders, figures of which have 

 been already cited from Cuvier's great work ; and the 

 same resemblance may be affirmed in regard to the smaller 

 varieties of the last upper molar tooth of the Mastodon 



* Ib. p. 152. 



f 8vo. Van Voorst, 1843, p. 213. 



