RICHARDS. 
removal from the bone was the work of no inconsiderable 
difficulty. When effected the very marked inequalities of 
bone surface shown in my first illustration were revealed. 
The relation borne by these inequalities to the meatus of the 
auditory canal, and a comparison of the specimen, thus 
fully stripped of all so-called soft parts, with the elephant 
skulls at the Central Park Museum, proved clearly that this 
surface was a part of the posterior aspect of the skull, that 
the direction of its plane was nearly vertical, and that con- 
sequently the directions and relations described in Dr. 
Buck's first paper required the revision he has given them 
in his second paper now issued to supersede the former. 
This illustration (Fig. 1) shows the back of the speci- 
men, a partof the front section of which is shown in Fig. 1 
picture a lead pencil is seen protruding from the meatus of 
