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4 fore (tho* I had told you in mine that I was able to make bat 
4 few of them) you defired me to let you have my Oblervatrons. 
The better to enable me to do which, you favour’d me with two 
Treatifes on Elephants , which I fuppofe to be the only Two hi- 
therto communicated to the E^yal Society ; one whereof gives an 
Anatomical Account of the Elephant accidentally burnt in Dublin, 
Anno j <58 1 . written by Dr. Moulins • which, tho’ it requires a 
further Enlargement, being very brief both in the Anatomy and 
Ofteology, and the Figures not very exafr, yet feems to have 
been the only Book which undeceiv'd the Author of the other, 
vie. tvilheltni ErnejU Tentzalij Hiftenographi Due am baxonia Epiit. 
de Sccleto Elephantine, 7 onr.a nuptr effojjo, ad Anton . Magliahechium 
tnagni Ducts Httruria Bibliothccanum. This i» the Treatile which 
delcribes the Bones menti n’d by you, found in an Hill near Er- 
furt in Germany', wherein the Author carneftly intreats, ‘That 
‘ tho* by diftance of Place he cannot expeft from his friend fuch 
‘ a Figure of the Elephant at Florence, (as Cyanipinu* formerly ob- 
‘ tain’dj yet, that he would, asexaftlyas poflrble, take the Di- 
4 menfions of all the Pjones, eipecially of toe Head, Teeth and 
4 Tusks, their Number, Situation and Origin } and he defires fur- 
ther to know, how old that Sceleton at Florence was, how high, 
and when it was difie&ed. 
Therefore, Sir, in Obedience to your repeated Requeft, 
in the feveral Letters you were pleafed to Honour me with’ 
and finding the Author of the laft nanvd Treatife, has favour’d the 
Kepofitory of your Society with feveral Specimen’s of the Bones 
he deferibes, Lome whereof perhaps being broke, may come not 
to be fo well known ^ that i may fatisfy* you to whom! am fo 
much bound, for the many fpecial and fignal Teflimonies of your 
Favour, your honourable and learned Society, for whom I have 
fo great a Veneration and K efpeft, and to whom 1 fhall be extream- 
lyglad, if by thefe means 1 may be capable to do any final! piece 
of Service, and the Learned Tent z.e Hus in that he fo earneftly 
defires, and wherein I do not yet underftand his Friend has an- 
fwer’d him: In a word, that I may fatisfy the World in fuch 
Things as were of Moment in this rare and curious Animal, I 
ihall obferve the following Particulars, cTc. 
if. Shew, how the Elephant fell in our way. 
idly. 
The Method 
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