4 i. 
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occur, are not only ignorant of the existence of the elephant 
both by personal observation or by hearsay, but have no word 
in their language for that animal. Fossil remains of various 
species of elephants have been found in the Pliocene and Pleis- 
tocene deposits of many countries, but Hlephas indicus itself has 
not been shewn to have any great antiquity, nor do I attempt 
to shew it now from the fragment before me. Borneo was sepa- 
rated from the Asiatic continent in quite recent times, and it is 
not impossible that the elephant lingered on in the newly-form- 
ed island for some length of time. That the species was once 
indigenous to Borneo is proved now for the first time and be- 
yond all manner of doubt. 
R.S. Shelford. 
