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cement had disappeared. Crown broad and oblong ; looks very like 

 E. primigenius in form. 



Length of crown, 2-4 in. Width of crown, at 1st ridge, 1- in. Width at 3rd ridge, 

 1-3 in. Width at 4th ridge (greatest), 1-45 in. Width at 5th ridge, 1-2 in. Height 

 at 5th ridge, 1 '3 in. 



In the British Museum (Cat. No. 23,766) there is a specimen of the 

 second milk molar, upper jaw, left side, certainly belonging to E. 

 antiquus. The crown is composed of six ridges ; five ridges are 

 worn and much expanded ; front talon broad and confluent ; back 

 talon disguised. Purchased from Mr. Ball. 



Length of crown, 265 in. Width in front, l'09in. Greatest height at front, 

 1-25 in. 



In the Taunton Museum there is a specimen of an unworn germ of 

 a second milk molar ; doubtful whether upper or lower, but believed 

 to be upper. This tooth forms a shell ; no fangs remaining ; ridges all 

 formed, but no cement ; shows distinctly seven ridges, with front talon 

 small and narrow, and hind talon a low splent of four digitations ; very 

 narrow in front, broad and egg-shaped behind ; marked ' Banwell,' but 

 believed to be from Hutton ; is a small tooth. Dimensions : — 



Length of crown, 1-9 in. Width at 2nd ridge, - 7 in. Greatest width of crown, 

 1-2 in. Height of 6th ridge, 1-3 in. 



Figs. 1 and 1 a of Plate XIY. A. of the ' Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis ' 

 represent the second upper milk molar, right side, of E. antiquus, with 

 five plates. The figure is taken from a Kent specimen in the Canter- 

 bury Museum. 



Lastly, one of Scharf's plates for M'Enery's projected work on the 

 Kent's Hole fossils represents three elephants' teeth, all second milk 

 molars — two of them germs, the third worn, and evidently of E. 

 antiquus. The characters are very distinct. One of the germs has 

 the side rubbed, exhibiting the characteristic section of E. (Eueleph.) 

 antiquus — i.e. wide plates; and the worn crown shows the plaited 

 enamel-plates and wide discs of the species very clearly. It is not a 

 little remarkable that, in the MS. index of the headings, M'Enery 

 refers to it as being the ' Indian Elephant ' ! This is another illustra- 

 tion of how shrewdly he observed ; and the notes extracted from Cuvier 

 show that he tried to master the subject of the dentition of the Ele- 

 phant ; but the detailed descriptions of the portion on Elephant appear 

 to have been lost. 



No. 21,301 in the British Museum collection is a superb palate 

 specimen of E. antiquus, irom Grays Thurrock, purchased from Mr. 

 Ball. It contains the third milk molar on either side, well worn. 

 The crown is long and narrow. The crowns converge, and all the 

 plates are more or less worn. The crown is composed distinctly of nine 

 main ridges. The anterior talon is conlluent with the first disc. The 

 hind talon is covered by cement. 



Length of right molar, 5" in. Width in front at 2nd ridge, 1'7 in. Greatest 

 width behind, l - 9 in. Interval between teeth, front, 2- in. Interval behind at 

 second ridge from last, top, 3 - in. 



In the Museum at Oxford there is also a specimen of the third left 

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