The P whose idea — Dinotherium. 



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North, side, 

 Pier-cases, 

 29 to 39. 



Slb-okder 1. — Proboscidea (Elephants). 



Ungulates furnished with a long flexible trunk-like snout or Elephants, 

 proboscis. 



The cases on the North side of this Gallery are nearly 

 entirely devoted to the exhibition of the largest series of fossil 

 remains of the Proboscidea ever brought together in any museum. 

 This sub-order is represented at the present day by the elephant 

 alone, but in past times by the elephant, the Mastodon, and the 

 Dinotherium. These extend from the Miocene epoch to the Dinothe- 

 present day, and are of nearly world-wide distribution, save on rium - 

 the island continents of Australia and New Guinea. ^and -Wall- 



case, No. 39. 



Fig. 10. — Skull and lower jaw-of Dinotherium giganteum (Kaup) ; from the Upper 

 Miocene of Eppelsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt. 



[Marked B, on plan, and placed near the entrance to Gallery on the left-hand side.] 



The elephants form a well-marked group, distinct from 

 other types of hoofed animals ; their direct ancestry is as yet 

 unknown. The nose is extended into a long, muscular, very 

 flexible and prehensile proboscis, at the end of which are 



