ELEPHANT TUSKS 



427 



As a proof of the great number of very large-sized mam- 

 moth tusks brought recently from the Lena River district 

 in Siberia, we give the following list made up from a single 

 shipment to a New York house, and stating the weight in 

 avoirdupois pounds of those tusks exceeding 100 lbs. in 

 weight : 



225 



221 



201| 



201 



182 



180| 



174 



1681 



166| 



165| 



1631 



(2) 



(2) 



(2) 



1551 



122 



147 



119i 



144 



116 



142 



112| 



132 



110 



131f 



1071 



125| 



106| 



125 



105f 



124| 



105| 



123| 



105 



123 



104f 



TUSKS OF ASLVTIC ELEPHANTS 



LENGTH GREATEST 



OUTSIDE 

 r CURVE* 



ft. in. 



9 10| 



9 .. 



8 9 



8 2 



8 9 



8 6 



8 



9t 



6 







41 



31 



3i 



6 11 

 6 6 

 6 10 



6 8 

 6 5 



CIRCUM- 

 FERENCE 



in. 

 15| 



Iflf 



17i 



16 



17 



15 



14 



18 



17^ 



171 



15 



ISf 



171 



8 



I! 



18f 



181 



lbs. 



81 

 80.2 



90 



Assam. 

 Burma. 



S. India. 

 Burma. 

 Sumatra. 

 Sumatra. 

 85 Assam. 



g^i i Burma. 



106 Do. 



65f India. 



84 

 83 



Burma. 



Royal Siamese Museum, Bangkok. 



The late Earl of Lytton. 

 Government House, Rangoon. 



Sir Victor Brooke's Collection. 

 Royal Palace, Mandalay. 

 G. F. W. Curtis. 



T. H, Monteath. 

 Marquis of Waterford.J 



R. Gordon Smith. 



Bethnal Green Museum (J. D. 

 Goldingham.) 



H. Shaw Dunn. 



*This list and the following one of tusks from African elephants are taken from Rowland 

 Ward's "Records of Big Game," 7th ed., edited by R. Lydekker and J. B. Burlace, Lon- 

 don, 1914, pp. 479-486, several additions having been made here. 



fExposed from the socket. 



|The tusks of the sacred white elephant from King Thibaw's Palace, Mandalay. 



