28 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



Beneath the skull/°2 on the pedestal, are the tusk of another specimen 



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from St. Catharines (Canada), and a portion of a lower jaw and teeth from 

 Missouri. There is hardly a portion of the United States, or indeed of the 

 North- American continent, which has not offered some remains of this ele- 

 phantoid animal which once roamed its surface in vast herds. 



Eleplias ganesa. 



In the east window, on a lon.2; pedestal, is mounted a very perfect head of 

 the Elephas ganesa, a fossil Mammoth from the Sewalik hills, outliers of 

 the Himmalaya mountains in India. The original, preserved in the British 

 Museum, was obtained by Dr. Falconer and Major Cautley. The Ter- 

 tiary deposit, in which it was discovered, consists of concretionary grit, 

 conglomerate, sandstone and loam ; and contains lignite, trunks of dicoty- 

 ledonous trees, and land and freshwater shells. 



The length of the skulP^ is four feet two inches ; width, twenty-nine 

 inches. The tusks are ten feet six inches long, and twenty-six inches in cir- 

 cumference at the base. In consequence of their slight curvature, they project 

 eight feet five inches in front of the head. Their apparent disproportion to 

 the size of the skull is truly extraordinary, and exemplifies the maximization 

 of dental development. The weight which they, by their great leverage, must 

 have added to the skull of the living animal, can hardly be estimated at 

 less than two thousand pounds ! 



At either end of the G-allery, in the recesses formed by the windows, aro 

 four handsome cases with glazed top and front, in which, on receding shelves, 

 are exhibited a numerous series of smaller fossils arranged with a zoolosical 

 grouping. In the first case (on the north wall) are twenty-eight 



