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much less than in the tusk at Petrograd aheady described, 

 is sufficiently marked to confirm the conclusions above 

 detailed. The "restored" tusks of the Adams mammoth in 

 the Petrograd Museum have been made up out of separate 

 pieces and are unquestionably not identical with, or even 

 similar to, those really borne by this mammoth. 



Whatever may be the final opinion in regard to the per- 

 manent value of these conjectures, they certainly have much 

 to support them, although further and fuller evidence is 

 needed to establish them satisfactorily. 



The largest tusks of the existing species of elephants in 

 Asia and Africa are inferior in length to some of those 

 which have been found with other remains of extinct elephant 

 species. Exceptionally fine examples of these tusks are 

 now to be seen in New York; Lincoln, Nebraska; Briinn, Mo- 

 ravia; Los Angeles, California; Mexico City, and also in Paris, 

 Petrograd, and several other European cities, some of the 

 American examples coming from our Alaskan territory. 



The tusks of the Wurttemberg mammoth in the Stutt- 

 gart Naturaliencabinett are typical specimens of those 

 borne by Elephas primigenius. The curve is remarkable 

 and yet by no means ungraceful. While the left tusk meas- 

 ures 8 ft. lOj in. along the outside curve, the direct line from 

 base to tip is only 4 ft. 5| in., less than half the actual length; 

 the right tusk is 8 ft. 8| in. long, the "chord" being 4 ft. 

 SJ in. The circumferences are 26 in. for the right tusk and 

 25| in. for the left one. Besides these tusks, forming part 

 of the splendid skeleton set up in this institution, there are 

 two remarkable tusks, also from Steinheim-on-the-Murr, 

 Wurttemberg, found in 1912. One of these, a left tusk of 

 the Elephas antiquus, is almost straight, after an initial 

 downward curve, and measures 12 ft. 3 in. in length; the 

 other, a right tusk of Elephas primigenius, has a length along 

 the outside curve of 12 ft. If in., but is so sharply curved 



