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Elephant ; the cranium is flatter, and, from the smaller de- 

 velopment of the frontal air-cells, it presents a less intelligent 

 character. The almost complete skeleton of the Mastodon 

 giganteus, so well known to the public as the " Missouri Le- 

 viathan," when exhibited, with a most grotesquely distorted 

 and exaggerated collocation of the bones, in 1842 and 1843, 

 in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, but now mounted, in strict 

 accordance with its natural proportions, in the British Mu- 

 seum, has enabled me to present, in the subjoined cut, as 

 perfect a restoration of the Mastodon, as that of the Mam- 

 moth given at the head of the preceding section. 



Fig. 102. 



Skeleton of the Afastwlon yigcmleus, from Missouri, in the British Museum. 



