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are in wear, excepting the posterior talon ; here the cement is in excess, and the discs 

 have no crimping to any very marked extent; for the most part, the latter is confined to 

 the outer borders. 



The tooth is decidedly distinct from the usual crowns of E. antiquus, with which, I 

 imagine, it could scarcely be confounded. This molar seems to me distinguishable from 

 the equivalent molar of either of the other two British fossil Elephants. 



In Mr. Alfred Savin's Collection at Cromer, I examined a left lower molar (No. 12) 

 of nearly the same size as the above, having precisely similar characters. It holds x7 x 

 in 4 X 2 inches, and five ridges in 2 \ inches. The first three ridges only are invaded, so 

 that in neither were the digitations worn out. The characters, however, are in keeping 

 with the foregoing, with which it appears to me to claim relationship. 



A small lower molar in the King Collection, Jermyn Street Museum, from the 

 Forest Bed, Cromer, shows five discs with irregular outlines. The enamel is thick, 

 uncrimped, with thick wedges of dentine and much intervening cement. The crown 

 widens in front, being 2 inches in breadth, maintaining an increase to the middle of 

 the crown, when it rapidly narrows posteriorly, being l - 4 inches behind. The ridge 

 formula is x 7 x in 48 X 2'8 inches. In its thick plates, absence of crimping and 

 of central dilatation, with the usual channelling of the enamel border, the above follows 

 its predecessor. On the label is written, " Green band and no gravel," indicating the 

 particular stratum from which it was obtained. 



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Another, No. ^, in the above Collection, from the same situation, but of the upper 



jaw, is shown in PI. XVII, fig. 8. It holds x 8 x in 4"5xl'4 inches. Here six discs 

 are in wear, with a well-marked pressure-scar in front. It is from the " Green band and 

 gravel of the Forest Bed." 



Of foreign specimens of the last milk-molars presenting characters comparable with 

 the foregoing, there is a fragmentary molar, left side, lower jaw, from the Val d'Arno, in 

 the British Museum. It is No. 38,824. The anterior talon appears to be wanting, 

 leaving a formula of Sx in 5xl'7 inches, and six ridges in 3 inches. The crown is 

 considerably arched and narrow, with seven discs in wear, showing characters in keeping 

 with the preceding molars. But whether this is an unusually large last milk, or small 

 first true, molar, may be considered doubtful. 



The Italian specimens illustrative of the third milk-molar are recorded as follows by 

 Falconer : — Upper, x 8 x in 4"6 X 2*5 ; lower, x 8 x in 4'6 X 1"8, x 8 x in 47 X 185, 

 and x 7 x. 1 



1 Op. cit., vol. ii, pp. Ill, 115. 



