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from eleven to twelve feet high. It is evidently much thicker than the 

 tibia of the Indian elephant (plate 13, fig. 1 1), which is thicker than 

 that of Africa («6. fig. 13). In other respects, the shape of this bone 

 and the articulating surfaces diifer but slightly from the three species. 

 I have seen another tibia quite entire at Florence, which I give 

 plate 16, figs. 12 and 13. It bears the same characters of thickness as 

 the preceding. Its length being thirty inches French, indicates an 

 animal eleven feet and a half in height. 



TIte Gigantomachia gives a tibia of the pretended teutobochus four 

 feet long, tlie femur being five feet. The length of the tibia is evidently 

 exaggerated, or else the two bones must have belonged to different 

 animals. It would indicate an individual above eighteen feet in height, 

 and would not correspond with the femur, which could only have be- 

 longed to an animal fourteen feet in height. 



The length of the femur of our Indian elephant, which is eight feet 

 high, is 0,92, and of the tibia, 0,5G. 



Of the fibula Icould find nothing more than the lower extremity. 

 It was found at Montferrat, and presented by M. Spinola. It is re- 

 presented with its internal articulating surface, plate 16, fig. 11. It 

 is 0,137 in length, and formed part of an animal fifteen feet in height. 

 Its shape is more rounded, its edges are more blunted, the little fossa 

 in the centre of its articulation is deeper than in the living elephant. 



7th. The Forefoot. — As less attention was always bestowed on 

 collecting the smaller than the larger bones, for some time I could find 

 nothing more belonging to the forefoot but a metacarpal bone of the 

 little toe. For this I was indebted to M. Deluc. This also is larger 

 in proportion than that of the Indian elephant, and indicates an 

 animal from nine to ten feet high. But during the course of my travels 

 in Italy, as well as among the specimens found in France, and those 

 sent to me from other countries, I have had the opportunity of observ- 

 ing many other bones of this description. 



Plate 16, fig. 24, is a metacarpal of the left annular, found with a 

 lower jaw at Romagnano. It is 0,224 in length, and 0,105 in thick- 

 ness at the top, and indicates an animal fourteen feet in height. The 

 external portion of its upper extremity is larger in proportion than in 

 the living elephant. 



Figure 23 of the same plate, is a metacarpal of the annular of the 

 medius, found in the valley of the Arno, and preserved in the Museum 

 of M. 'iargioni Tozzetti. The external part of the upper surface is 

 tliere also much larger than in the living animal, in proportion to the 

 other parts ; it is 0,20 in length, and formed part of an animal twelve 

 feet in height. 



I have had an opportunity of observing two semi-lunars of the car- 

 pus. One of them, the left, of an animal of the midde size, was sent 

 to our Museum from the neighbourhood of Abbeville, b^' M. Baillon. 

 I gi\'e an engraving of it, plate 16, fig. 22. It is 0,064 in length, 

 and 0,117 in breadth. 



The second was larger, and from the right side (plate 1 6, fig. 18) it is 

 0,162 broid, and 0,104 long, and is at present in the Museum of M. 

 Targioni, at Florence. I find them much shorter from front to rear, 

 than in the living elephant. Moreover, that of Florence has its body 



