DESCEIPTION OF PLATES. 



443 



Has seven well crimped plates. Specimen is from Suffolk, and was 

 presented by Dr. Cooke to Geol. Soc. Mus. (No. 8,411). 

 Length, 4'2 in. Width, 2-1. in. Height, 3- in. 



Figs. 7 and 7 a. — Third milk molar, lower jaw, right side, from 

 Kent ; not quite perfect behind. Is narrow in front, broader behind, 

 and well crimped. Proves Lord Aylesbtury's specimen to be first true 

 molar (Vide PI. XIII. A. fig. 5). 



Length, 6'4 in. Width, 2- in. Height behind, 2'5 in. 



Figs. 8 and 8 a. — First true molar, lower jaw, right side ; embedded 

 in fragment of jaw. Has twelve plates. — No. 18,967 B.M. 

 Lengtli of molar, 8'3 in. Width, 2'5 in. Height, 4'2 in. 



Figs. 9 and 9 a. — Fragment of lower jaw, right side, with portions of 

 two last molars. The plates are enormously higher than in the Elephas 

 priscus from Grays. The specimen is believed to be from Kome, 

 from Cardinal Gualteri's collection.— B.M. 



Length of anterior molar (imperfect), 4" in. Width, 3- iu. Length of last molar, 

 7" in. Height of section, 7'3 in. Number of plates remaining, 9. 



Figs. 10 and 10 a. — This is probably a second true molar, lower jaw, 

 right ride. Has twelve plates and a heel, five of the plates worn. — 

 No. 19,844 B.M. 



Length, 10- in. Width, 2-5 in. Height, 6- in. 



Figs. 11 and 11 a. — Last molar, lower jaw, left side, with fifteen to 

 sixteen plates and a heel. Portion in front gone. Specimen belonging 

 to Mr. Bowerbank. It was brought from Saffron Walden by Mr. 

 Sampson Hancock, and presented to the Mathematical Society at Dover, 

 in whose collection it remained until its dissolution. It then passed 

 into the hands of Mr. J. S. Bowerbank, who has known the specimen 

 for about thirty years. (MS. Note on Plate, March 22nd, 1858.) Ee- 

 produced in Plate IX. of vol. ii. 



Length, 12-3 in. Width, 3- in. Height, 6- in. 



Figs. 12 and 12 a. — Last lower molar, right side, from Happisburgh. 

 Only the eleven posterior plates are present. Plates very crimped 

 • and bent. — B.M. 



Length, 10-5 in. Width, 3-4 in. Height, 5-7 in. 



Figs. 13 and 13 a.- — Last lower molar, left side ; fourteen plates 

 remaining, but some in front missing. From Cardinal Gualteri's 

 collection. Via Appia, Eome. — B.M. 



Length, 11- in. Width, 3-4 in. 



Plate XIV. B.i 



Figs. 1 and 1 a. — Elephas meridionalis. Plan- and side-view of the 

 penultimate or second upper milk molar. It is a germ-specimen, 



' Great confusion has existed with 

 regard to this plate, which I hope to 

 have succeeded in now clearing up. In 

 the published plate (xiv. B.), figs. 1 to 

 9 and 11 to 16 are said to belong to E. 

 meridionalis, and figs 10, 17, and 18, to 

 E. antiquus. While the plates of the 

 ' Fauna ' were passing through the press 

 Dr. Falconer became satisfied that he 



had committed a mistake in making the 

 fossil remains of the fluviatile beds of 

 the Thames valley identical with the ex- 

 tinct Elephant of the Val d'Arno, instead 

 of the fossil remains of the ' Crag.' In 

 his memoir on British Fossil Elephants, 

 written ten years later (1857), but not 

 published until after his death, he says 

 that although convinced that the ' Crag' 



