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period when these mammals were living, Malta must have been united 
to the African continent. 
Note by Dr. A. Leith Adams, F.G.8. 
I have received from Dr. Caruana the tooth he supposes may be- 
long to an Hippopotamus, and find it is a fragment of a germ true 
molar of one or other of the pigmy Elephants. The fish-teeth are 
also in my possession, and referable to Sharks of the genus Lamna 
or Oxyrhina, and are very probably Miocene, and derived from the 
rocks in which the Shantiin fissure exists, having been washed into it 
along with the soil and other organic remains. Similar teeth were 
found in Zebbug Cave by Captain Spratt, F.G.S.; and I discovered 
allied Sharks’ teeth in another ossiferous cavern in the island. 
DIscussron. 
Prof. Busk remarked that there was no doubt that three species 
of elephants had lived and bred in Malta. 
Capt. Sprarr said that, it appeared to him, the chief interest 
of the communication lay in the greater comparative abundance of 
the larger species of elephant in the new locality. 
