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FOSSIL MAMMAL GALLERY. 



Elephants, 

 SeapCows, 

 and Extinct 

 KamniAls. 



The front gallery first entered from the haU is devoted to 

 Elephants, Sea-Cows, and Extinct Mammals. Along the centre 

 are placed a number of large and striking objects, of too great 

 size to be contained in the wall-cases. The first is a nearly 

 complete skeleton of the American Mastodon (fig. 41), an 

 animal closely allied to the Elephants, from which it is chiefly 

 distinguished by the characters of its molar teeth. This is 

 followed by a mounted skeleton of the existing Indian Elephant 

 (Mephas masdmus). A mounted specimen of the same 



Fig. 41. — Skeleton of Amekican Mastodon {Mastodon americarms). 



species, brought home from India by His Majesty the King 

 when Prince of Wales, stands near by. Against the south 

 wall is fixed a magnificent head of the African elephant 

 (K africanus) ; while near by are displayed some large tusks 

 of both species. Purther down the gallery is the skuU of 

 an extinct Elephant (S. ganesa) — remarkable for the im- 

 mense length of its tusks — from the Siwalik Hills of 

 India; and another of the Mammoth {E. primigenius), with 

 huge curved tusks, in a perfect state of preservation, found in 

 the brick-earth at Ilford in Essex. Then follow skeletons of 



