Proboscidea — The Ma m moth. 



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wool as if to protect it from the colder climate.* The tusks of this 

 Arctic elephant are still collected for the sake of the ivory ; 

 and every few years a shipload is sent from Archangel to the port 

 of London for sale. The Siberian mammoth closely agrees with 

 the specimens found fossil in various parts of England, par- 

 ticularly those from the brick-earth of the valley of the Thames 

 near London, from the Dogger Bank, and the coast of Norfolk. 



Pier-case, 

 No. 31. 



Fossil Ivory 

 from. Siberia 



Pier-cases 

 Nos. 31 and 

 32. 



Table- cases, 

 Nos. 17, 18, 

 19. 20. 



Fig. 28. — Mandible of Mammoth, Elephas primigenius (Blum.); Dredged off the Dogger 

 Bank, in the Xorth Sea, lb37.t (The original specimen is exhibited in Pier-case 32.) 



Some of the grinders of the Mammoth are of very large size, 

 and have as many as twenty-eight or even thirty plates, or 

 laminae, in a single tooth. 



Many of these remains may be seen in the Pier-cases, and Pier-cases, 

 in the centre of the Gallery floor is placed a magnificent speci- ^° B - 29 to 

 men, consisting of the skull and both tusks, complete, showing Glazed-case 

 their characteristic double carve, of a Mammoth found at Ilford E. 



in Essex. Similar remains have also been found beneath 

 modern London, associated with flint implements made by early 

 man, with whom this old elephant was contemporary. 



India, the present home of one of the two species of existing Pier-cases, 

 elephants, has also yielded abundant evidence of numerous ; 



36. 



* An example of the hair may be seen, in a glass jar, in Pier-ease No. 31. 

 t See " Geol. Mag.," 1878, decade ii. vol. t. pi. xii. p. 443. 



