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FOSSIL ELEPHANT. 
that one of these tusks, which had been sawn across, was 
■very remarkable, having, in the heart of the solid ivory, a 
leaden musket-bullet, which must have been lodged when 
the tusk was soft at the root, the animal having been shot 
at and wounded when young. The ivory around the ball 
was a little discoloured, and cellular; but there was no 
opening from the root to the place where the ball was in- 
closed. The former species, whose habits suited a northern 
climate, has become extinct, from causes as to which we 
can form no reasonable conjecture *. 
* To Mr George Johnston, factor to Lord Egiinton, I am indebted 
for the particulars regarding the interesting fossil found at Kilmaurs. An 
account of the finding of these tusks was sent to Professor Jahbson by 
Alexander Hood, Esq. surgeon, Kilmarnock, and read before the Wer- 
nerian Natural History Society, 20th December 181 7»— See Wernerian Me- 
moirs, vol. iii. p. 5^5. 
