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645. Part of the shaft of the humerus of a Mammoth. 



From the pleistocene beds at Bridport. 



Presented by H. B. TVay, Esq. to Sir Joseph Banks, and by 

 Sir Joseph to the College. 

 The circumstances attending the discovery of this and other fossils 

 of the Mammoth by Mr. Way are thus described in a letter from that 

 gentleman to Sir Joseph Banks : — " My house being near a high cliff 

 of yellow earth or clay with stones intermixed, and which cliff is perpen- 

 dicular on the side next the sea, large portions of which frequently 

 slip down ; one having occurred very lately in the part of the cliff 

 nearest me, as I had lately enclosed a pretty large plot of deep sand 

 in front of my house next the sea, and which I was desirous of getting 

 into some kind of cultivation, I availed myself of the opportunity of 

 carting away a considerable quantity of the yellow sand or clay from 

 the slip above mentioned, in doing which my men dug out and brought 

 me three bones, very different from any I have seen, and in an 

 apparently, to me, very unusual state. The cliff from which they must 

 have fallen is at that place I judge about forty feet high, and, as the soil 

 that was on the surface before it fell remains still on the top of what has 

 fallen down, and these bones were found about half-way up in the heap, 

 I should suppose the bones must have come from a part of the cliff 

 about half-way from the surface to the shore." 

 Dated Bridport Harbour, Sept. 16, 1809. 



646. A fragment of the compact wall of the shaft of the humerus of a 

 Mammoth. 



From the drift of Germany. Hunterian. 



64/. The inner condyle and part of the shaft of the right humerus of a 

 Mammoth. 



From the pleistocene beds forming the cliffs near Mannington, Suffolk. 

 "From Dr. Woodward's collection." Hunterian. 



648. The left os cuneiforme of a Mammoth : it is noted in the manuscript 

 Catalogue as being " half petrified." 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



