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inside elephant's tusks, completely grown over with ivory. If we 
drop a shot into the cavity of the tooth of a boiled rabbit, and 
imagine the tooth put back again into the rabbit's jaw to grow, 
it will give some idea how bullets are sometimes imbedded in 
solid ivory without any apparent hole by means of which they 
have obtained an entry. 
The engraving represents a specimen of a remarkable abnor- 
mal growth from the hollow part of the tusk of an elephant. 
I found nothing in the cavity, but it is, however, evident that 
nature was attempting to cover up a foreign body which probably 
NOUULK OF IVORY. 
was a bullet. The specimen was presented to me by Messrs. 
Brooks & Co., of Cumberland Market, who cut up great quantities 
of ivory in their business. 
Mr. Larabton Young gives me the following new plan for 
bolting rabbits from their holes. He writes : — - 
" T have met with a novel way of ferreting for rabbits 
in Jersey. On the estate of my friend is a rabbit-warren, but 
lately the rabbits were found to be diminishing in numbers very 
rapidly. A watch was set, but there were no guns heard, or 
suspicious persons observed to go on the ground ; the only fre- 
quenter of the place was an old lame fisherman, who walked 
with a broomstick to aid his steps. At last suspicion attached 
