16 Distribution, Food and Climate of the Mammoth. 
neck; the tail was much mutilated, only eight, out of twenty- 
eight or thirty caudal vertebre, remaining; the proboscis was 
gone, but the places of the insertion of its muscles were visible 
on the skull. ‘I'he skin, of which about three-fourths were saved, 
was of a dark grey color, covered with a reddish wool, and coarse 
long black hairs. '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, 
at Jatusk, and the whole expedited thence to St. Petersburg ; the 
skeleton is now mounted in the museum of the Petropolitan 
sign 
relation of its organization to its habits, climate, and mode 0 
* A part of the skin and some of the hair of this animal, were pyri Mr. 
Adams to Sir Joseph Banks, who presented them to the Museum of the } oyal 
College of Surgeons. TI is entirely separated from the skin, except 
one small part, where it still remains firmly attached. Itc s of two sorts, 
tles; and of each there are several varieties, d - 
length and thickness hat remaining kin is thick-set and ¢ 
reddish color. Among the separate parcels of hair are some rather re 
the short hair ea mentioned, about four inches long, and some bristles ne 
icker than horse-hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long- 
e skin when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the we 
t La longue toison dont cet animal ‘était convert semblerait méme demonire fr 
qu'il était organisé pour supporter un degré de froid plus grand que mart a 
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