FOSSIL MAMMAL GALLERY. 
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The front gallery tirst entered from the hall is devoted to Elephants, 
Elephants, Sirenians, and Extinct Mammals. Along the centre and ExUm 
are placed a number of large and striking objects, of too great size Mammals, 
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 ; followed by a mounted 
skin and skeleton of the existing Indian Elephant {Elei^has 
maximus). Against the south wall is fixed a magnificent head 
Fig. 41. — 8kei,eton of American Mastodon (Mastodon nme.ricaitm). 
of the African elephant {E. (ifrlvdjiud) ; while near by are 
displayed some large tusks of both species. Further down the 
gallery is the skull of an extinctElephant (^.^/fmesa) — remarkable 
for the immense length of its tusks — from the Siwalik Hills of 
India ; and another of the Mammoth {E. priwir/enius), with 
huge curved tusks, in a perfect state of preservation, found in 
the brick earth at Ilford in Essex. Then follow skeletons of 
the great extinct Irish Deer (Ccrrus (/([/aniens), male and female, 
the former distinguished by its magnificent palmated antlers, 
resembling those of a fallow, deer on a large scal(\ 
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