156 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



"No. 1927. Manimolithus, fragment \ Sandbach, Cheshire. 



of the skeleton of Elephas J. B. Aspinall. 



primigenius, or Mammoth. J 

 No. 1928. Mammolithus, part of a \ Sandbach, Cheshire. 



Grinder of the same, found Y J. B. Aspinall." 



in a bed of Sand, near J 



The collections were sold to the Corporation of Notting- 

 ham in 1877, and to the Earl of Derby and the Corporation 

 of Bootle about 1887. Eecently I made a search in the 

 Bootle Museum for the tooth and " fragment of the 

 skeleton" referred to, and found the part of the tooth 

 with the label obliterated, but by means of some chemical 

 treatment the printed description came out distinctly 

 as "1928" in the catalogue. Mr. H. C. Chadwick very 

 kindly made two drawings of it, one showing the grinding 

 surface and the other the side aspect, and one is repro- 

 duced on Plate X., fig. 1. The tooth is evidently that of 

 Elephas primigenius as given in the catalogue, and the 

 "fragment of the skeleton" is the lower portion of the 

 humerus. 



In 1877 a tooth of the elephant was found by a workman 

 in the sand and gravel pit at Marbury, only three miles 

 from Wrenbury, where the femur was found in 1803. It 

 was given by him to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, 

 who, some twelve months after, gave it to the Rev. T. 

 W. Norwood, F.G.S., and he presented it to me in 1897. 

 When I received it all the grinding surface had gone, and 

 the tooth in a broken and delapidated condition, but there is 

 little if any doubt that it belonged to Elephas primigenius. 

 In order to preserve it from further decay, the cracks and 

 crevices have been filled with cement and the whole 

 varnished, and the tooth is shown in the photograph, for 

 which I am indebted to Mr. J. A. Clubb, M.Sc, repro- 

 duced on Plate X., fig. 2. 



