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This Letter of Mr. Nevile with Dr . Molineux’i curious 
Draughts of the Teeth , and his learned Remarks upon them, 
having keen produced and read before the Royal Society, they 
ordered that what Teeth the y had of like fort fhould be look'd out 
and laid before them ; to which Sir Hans Sioane was pleafed to 
furnifh a yet greater Variety, out of his incomparable Collection 
of Natural Rarities. A nd to obviate all Doubts, there being at 
this time in Weftminfter the entire Skull of a large Elephant 
with the Teeth in it. That was likewife ordered to be viewed 
and compared with the Figures : which done , it appeared that the 
Teeth in queflion could be no other than thofe of an Elephant . 
By this Enquiry we were likewi\e fatisfied, that the Number 
of Teeth found , being but four , was no Objection : it appear- 
ing that the Number 0/Molares in this Animal is not certain. 
Pliny Lib . XI. Cap, 37. fays expr^flv Dentes Elephantointus 
ad mandendum quatuor, prseter eo& qui prominent. And 
in the Remains of that mighty Elephant defcribedby Tenzelius. 
Phil. Tranf. No. 136. there were no more than four Teeth 
found . In that at Weftminfter there are Six, viz. One in 
each lower Jaw, and Two in each of the Upper, whereof the in K 
ner Tooth is about three times as long as the other, and boih to- 
gether longer than thofe of the under Jaw by about an Inch ; 
the upper fmall Teeth being much worn by grinding. Thfe 
we have thought fit to reprefent by Fig. 5- j hewing the rough 
grinding Surface of the left under Tooth, being confiderauly 
Concave ; and by Fig. 6. the fame Roughnefs on the upper 
Teeth is (hewn, having a Convexity tallying with the Concavi- 
ty of the under, which is a Circumflance not obferved by any 
of thofe that have defer lb ed them. 
And alt ho, by the Obfervation of Mr. Du Verney, Dr. 
Moulins, and Mr. Blaire, who differed three different Ele- 
phants, it appear that each of them had eight Molares : yet 
from them it is alfo evident that in the divtfion of th m Na- 
ture obferves no Rule , For Dr. Moulins found the two Teeth 
in each of the upper Jaws of that he differed, to be divi - 
