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FOSSIL MAMMAL GALLERY. 
Elepiiants, The front gallery first entered from the hall is devoted to 
and'ExSict Elephants, Sea-Cows, and Extinct Mammals. Along the centre 
Mammals. are placed a number of large and striking objects, of too great 
size to be contained in the wall-cases. The first is a nearly 
complete skeleton of the American Mastodon (fig. 41), an 
animal closely allied to the Elephants, from which it is chiefly 
distinguished by the characters of its molar teeth. This is 
followed by a mounted skeleton of the existing Indian Elephant 
(Mephas maximus). A mounted specimen of the same 
Fig. 4L — Skeleton or American Mastodon (Mastodon americanus'). 
species, brought home from India by His Majesty the King 
when Prince of Wales, stands near by. Against the south 
wall is fixed a magnificent head of the African elephant 
(E. africanus) ; while near by are displayed some large tusks 
of both species. Further down the gallery is the skull of 
an extinct Elephant (E. ganesa) — remarkable for the im- 
mense length of its tusks — from the Siwalik Hills of 
India; and another of the Mammoth {E. primigenius), with 
huge curved tusks, in a perfect state of preservation, found in 
the brick-earth at Ilford in Essex. Then follow skeletons of 
