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eight laminz, showing the uncrimped enamel and closely-packed 
and attenuated plates of the molar of Elephas primigenius, to 
which species I have no doubt the specimen belongs. The other 
statements of finds recorded in Dr. Grainger’s paper above al- 
luded to, I am informed by him are somewhat doubtful, at all 
events as regards their connexion with exuvie of elephants. 
3. A nearly entire humerus, with the loss of portion of the 
greater tuberosity and of the supinator ridge, is preserved in the 
British Museum. This specimen is No. 30531 of the Palzonto- 
logical Collection, I am assured by the Earl of Enniskillen, in whose 
possession it had been formerly, that it was dredged up in 
the Bay of Galway. The surface is covered with cirripedia 
proving its marine origin. The bone is light and in a good state 
of preservation. The length is 34 inches; the smallest transverse 
diameter of the shaft is 4.2 inches; and the smallest diameter in 
the antero—posterior direction, 32 inches, and least girth 134 
inches. The maximum breadth at the distal extremity is 8 
inches. The head, measured along the curve in the antero- 
posterior direction, is 9 inches by 5 inches transversely. The 
nutrient foramen, as usual in the Mammoth, is high, and the 
bi-cipital groove is narrow. ‘I'he direction of the supinator 
ridge and centre of the trochlear depression are precisely the 
same in the Mammoth and Asiatic elephant, which differ in this 
character from the African and extinct elephants of Europe. 
The discovery of remairs of the Mammoth in Galway Bay is 
important as showing the most westerly European distribution 
of this proboscidean, and perhaps also a further extension of land 
westward. 
4, The finding of its remains in Cavan is recorded in the Philo- 
sophical Transactions of 1715, in a letter addressed to the Right 
Rey. St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, S.R.S., by Mr. Francis 
Neville ; and is among the first really well authenticated disco- 
veries of elephantine remains from British strata. Appended to 
the letter are descriptions and plates of the teeth by Thomas 
Molyneux, M.D. and 8.R.S., the well-known Irish naturalist. 
The discovery, according to the description, was made at 
Maghery in sinking the foundation of a mill near the side of a 
small brook that parts the counties of Cavan and Monaghan, on 
the lands of the Bishop of Killmires, 
