ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF THE ELEPHANT. 



299 



Authors 

 consulted. 



Details of the Tusks. 



r Largest tusk of 

 Auten- J Canstadt, very 

 rieth& I much curve d,trun- 

 Jaeger. (^cated at both euds 



I ReiselandSpleiss 

 j speak of one of. . 

 The largestjfound 

 Natter.-^ in the same place 

 in 1818 



Messer- f 



Schmidt ] A tusk very 



& -Brey. y muchciirved,from 



PJiil- I Siberia 



Trans. ■ 



p. 40. L 



Tile- r 

 sius, I. 



Mem. Tusks of the 



of J skeleton of Mr. 



Peters-"^ Adams, from the 



bourg, 



v, pi. 



10. 



Adams. 



drawings 



A tusk observed 

 at lakoutsk .... 



Her- r A tusk suspend- 

 mann, j edin theCathedral 



Prog, j ofStrasbourgjVery 

 pecul. j^much curved. . . . 



Id. Let- f Idem from Wen- 

 ters. L denheim 



Length 

 measur- 

 ing the 

 great 

 curve. 



5' 6" 



10' 



8^ 



13^6' 

 5/// 



12' 



15 



6' 1' 



4" 10' 



Diame 



ter at 



the thick 



end. 



5" at 

 other 

 end 3" 



V 



Weight. 



7" 



8" 8' 



137 L 

 ]'> p. 



Apoth. 



lb. 



234 



3" 5' 



5" 6" 



Observations. 



Mr. Adams says 

 two toises and a 

 half, but does not 

 say what toises ; 

 neither does he 

 say whether he 

 has taken those 

 dimensions, or 



merely gives them 

 from memory. 



