DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 23 



Has seven well crimped plates. Specimen is from Suffolk, and was 

 presented by Dr. Cooke to Geol. Soc. Mus. (No. 8,411). 

 Length, 4-2 in. Width, 2*1. in. Height, 3- in. 



Figs. 7 and 7 a. — Third milk molar, lower jaw, right sisle, from 

 Kent ; not quite perfect behind. Is narrow in front, broader behind, 

 and well crimped. Proves Lord Aylesbury's specimen to be first true 

 molar {Vide PI. XIII. A. fig. 5). 



Length, 5"-i in. Width, 2 - in. Height behind, 2 - 5 in. 



Figs. 8 and 8 a. — First true molar, lower jaw, right side ; embedded 

 in fragment of jaw. Has twelve plates. — No. 18,967 B.M. 

 Length of molar, 8'3 in. Width, 25 in. Height, 4'2 in. 



Figs. 9 and 9 a. — Fragment of lower jaw, right side, with portions of 

 two last molars. The plates are enormously higher than in the Elephas 

 priscus from Grays. The specimen is believed to be from Eome, 

 from Cardinal Gualteri's collection. — B.M. 



Length of anterior molar (imperfect), 4 - in. Width, 3 - in. Length of last molar, 

 7' in. Height of section, 7'3 in. Number of plates remaining, 9. 



Figs. 10 and 10 a. — This is probably a second true molar, lower jaw, 

 right ride. Has twelve plates and a heel, five of the plates worn. — 

 No. 19,844 B.M. 



Length, 10- in. Width, 25 in. Height, 6- in. 



Figs. 11 and 11 a. — Last molar, lower jaw, left side, with fifteen to 

 sixteen plates and a heel. Portion in front gone. Specimen belonging 

 to Mr. Bowerbank. It was brought from Saffron Walden by Mr. 

 Sampson Hancock, and presented to the Mathematical Society at Dover, 

 in whose collection it remained until its dissolution. It then passed 

 into the hands of Mr. J. S. Bowerbank, who has known the specimen 

 for about thirty years. (MS. Note on Plate, March 22nd, 1858.) Re- 

 produced in Plate IX. of vol. ii. 



Length, 12-3 in. Width, 3- in. Height, 5" in. 



Pigs. 12 and 12 a. — Last lower molar, right side, from Happisburgh. 

 Only the eleven posterior plates are present. Plates very crimped 

 and bent. — B.M. 



Length, 10-5 in. Width, 3-4 in. Height, 57 in. 



Figs. 13 and 13 a. — Last lower molar, left side ; fourteen plates 

 remaining, but some in front missing. From Cardinal Gualteri's 

 collection. Via Appia, Eome. — B.M. 



Length, IT in. Width, 3-4 in. 



Plate XIV. B. 1 



Figs. 1 and 1 a. — Elephas meridionalis. Plan- and side-view of the 

 penultimate or second upper milk molar. It is a germ- specimen, 



1 Great confusion has existed with ' had committed a mistake in making the 

 regard to this plate, which I hope to fossil remains of the fluviatile beds of 

 have succeeded in now clearing np. In the Thames valley identical with the ex- 

 the published plate (xiv. B.), figs. 1 to tinct Elephant of the Val d'Arno, instead 

 9 and 11 to 16 are said to belong to E. of the fossil remains of the 'Crag.' In 

 meridionalis, and figs 10, 17, and 18, to his memoir on British Fossil Elephants, 

 E. antiquua. While the plates of the written ten years later (1857), but not 

 ' Fauna' were passing through the press ! published until after his death, he says 

 Dr. Falconer became satisfied that he that although convinced that the ' Crag ' 



