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DR. H. POHLIG ON FOSSIL ELEPHANTS. 



Prof. Boyd Dawkins further remarked that in his paper Prof. 

 Pohlig had pointed out distinctions between different species of 

 Elephants. The speaker thought that the Pigmy Elephants of 

 Malta, Corinth, &c. cannot be considered forms of E. antiquus, 

 Nor could he agree with Prof. Pohlig's statement as to E. meri- 

 dionalis. Especially he was not prepared to admit that E. 

 antiquus was the largest of the Elephants, and he thought that 

 any one who had seen the specimen of E. meridionalis from the 

 south of Prance which had been set up by Prof. Gaudry in the 

 Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, would agree with him. A.t the 

 same time he admitted that further information was necessary before 

 criticizing Prof. Pohlig's remarks. 



Mr. Ltdekkee observed that he was glad to find that his own views 

 as to the Maragha species accorded in the main with those of Dr. 

 Pohlig, although he thought it probable that the form named 

 Rhinoceros persice was really R. Blcmfordi. With regard to the 

 Elephants, it appeared to him almost as though Dr. Pohlig had re- 

 versed the application of the names E. meridionalis and E. antiquus. 

 In connection with the proposed identification of the Euelephine 

 E. hysudicus with one of the European species {E. meridionalis^ 

 Pohlig), he should observe that Leith Adams had proposed to 

 identify E. antiquus with E. namadicus, and that the affinity of 

 E. hysudicus appeared decidedly nearer to the latter than to the 

 Yal d'Arno Elephant. Neither was he prepared to accept the pro- 

 posed identification of E. melitensis with one of the larger European 

 species. The reversion to Cliffs association of the stegodonts with 

 Mastodon appeared to be a retrograde proposal. In reply to Prof. 

 Boyd Dawkins, he pointed out that the age of the Pikermi beds has 

 been determined by Pliocene molluscs being found in the lowest 

 of them. He therefore classed both Pikermi and Maragha as 

 Pliocene. The case of Hyopotamus was as follows : — It occurs 

 in Beluchistan with Rhinoceros Blanfordi, in beds overlying others, 

 the age of which has been shown by Prof. Duncan, from the ex- 

 amination of the Echinodermata and corals, to be Upper Miocene. 



