\ 
370 Notice of Dr. Warren’s Mastodon Giganteus. 
whole number to be from sixteen to twenty, exclusive of the great inci- 
least probable, that the animal possessed an intermediate tooth between 
the second tooth with three denticles, and that with four cane 
more of the first teeth have disappeared. The sixth and 
much larger, and formed in a mould different from any of the ot 
_ The plates represent in beautiful style the dentition of several 
skeletons, exhibiting the jaws and teeth of different ages- a 
The tusks, which are incisor teeth, enormously develo ‘ 
treated of in the following chapter, as follows, pp- 87—90: 
“ Besides the regular intermaxillary tusks, there are two very — 
ones, which show themselves in the upper jaw at the earliest per! iis 
life, but shortly disappear and are succeeded by the permanent ad. 
This is shown by cutting into the tusk-socket of our calf elephant 
hers. 
