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BRITISH FOSSIL ELEPHANTS. 



the chin is nearly as rounded as in Woodcut, fig. 4, such is by no means the case in the 

 jaws from the Val d'Arno at Florence and the cast in the British Museum, shown in 

 Woodcut, fig. 14. 



Fig. 13. Fig. 14. 



E. antiquus, British. 

 (Collection of Geological Society of London.) 



I 



E. meridionalis, Val d'Arno. 

 (British Museum Collection, No. 37,334.) 



In the two recent species there are good distinctions to be made on this character, 

 the chin of the Asiatic Elephant presenting the usual aspect of that of the Mammoth, 

 subject to the same variations, whereas of several mandibles of the African I have never 

 seen the broad round chin of Woodcut, fig. 15. The more pointed mental region of the 

 mandible of the African agrees with that of E. meridionalis, to which species there is a 

 closer relationship in other skeletal elements than with the Mammoth. 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 16. 



E. Asiatievs. (Collection 

 of Royal College of Surgeons, No. 26.56 a.) 



E. Asiaticus. (Collection 

 of Royal College of Surgeons, No. 26/4.) 



