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occur, are not only ignorant of the existence of the elephant 
both b personal observation or by hearsay, but have no word 
in their language for that animal. Fossil remains of various 
speciés of elephants have been found in the Pliocene and Pleis- 
tocene deposits of many countries, but Elephas irre pete has 
рк been sbewn to have any great antiquity, nor do empt 
shew it now from the fragment before me. Borneo was veut 
R. S. Shelford. 
