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658. Three fragments of the femur of a Mammoth. 



From the pleistocene beds of the cliffs at Bridport. 



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

 hands of Sir Everard Home, to the College. 

 The following note from Sir Joseph Banks to Sir Everard Home 

 relates to these specimens, and to Nos. 57 1 and 572. 



" My dear Sir, " Soho Square, March 28th, 1810. 



" With this you will receive another fragment of an Elephant's bone 

 from Bridport, with the yellow sand in which it was imbedded adhe- 

 ring to it. How singular, that the skeleton of the animal should have 

 been torn to pieces before it was lodged ; even the teeth wrenched out 

 of the jaws, and yet many bones and parts of bones remain near the 

 same spot ! 



" Yours always, 



" Joseph Banks." 



659. The proximal half of the right tibia of a proboscidian animal, with the 

 articular surfaces mutilated : it resembles the tibia of the Indian Elephant 

 more than that of the Mastodon, and probably belongs to the Mammoth 

 (Elephas primigenius). The bone is petrified, and a reddish calcareous 

 earth adheres to its posterior surface. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



660. The right tibia, wanting the proximal end, of a Mammoth. 



From the drift in the neighbourhood of Moscow. Purchased. 



661. Fragments of bones of a Mammoth; they are noted in the manuscript 



Catalogue as being " calcined, or in the bony state," that is, absorbent 

 from the loss of the animal matter. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



662. Portions of decomposed vegetable matter, found between layers of brick- 



earth which contained bones of the Mammoth. 



From Ilford, Essex. Presented by William Thompson, Esq. 



