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slack and crumble, I advised the possessor to lay it in a box of sand 

 where it now remains. 



The root or butt of the tusk is hollow for eighteen inches. The 

 longest piece measures twenty two inches in length, and sixteen and 

 a half inches in circumference, weighing twenty two pounds. The 

 weight of the whole was, when I first saw it, fifty seven pounds and 

 eight ounces. 



The above sketch is from memory. 



P. S. One of the vertebrae of the neck was also found, weighing 

 two pounds two ounces; it was apparently very much decayed. 

 The owner of the land intends digging for the remainder of the 

 skeleton. 



7. Analysis of the supposed AnthophylUte of JVew York, in a 

 letter from Thos. Thomson, M.D. F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry, 

 Glasgow, to A. F. Holmes, M. D. M. W. S. Lecturer on Chemistry, 

 McGill College, Montreal. — I have submitted to analysis the speci- 

 men which you marked Anthophyllite from New York. From the 

 peculiarity of its appearance, I could not be sure whether it was an- 

 thophyllite or not. The result of the analysis was as follows. : spe- 



98.217 

 This comes very near 5MS^-]-2/S3+A;S3 + 0.64AZS'+9M(^. If 

 we omit the ter-silicate of alumina, as not amounting to an atomic 

 quantity, the formula gives 5MS ^ -t-2^ ^ _{_^s 3 ^ 9iAq. 



