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chapters xiii. and xiv. deal with elephants, we must reserve 
our remarks till then, only alluding here to one striking form 
from the Sivalik Hills, namely, the Elephas ganesa, the tusks of 
which were more than ten feet in length, and much less curved 
than those of the mammoth. A very fine specimen of the head 
and tusks may be seen in the gallery of fossil mammals in the 
Natural History Museum (Gallery I, Stand D). 
With the following eloquent passage from Dr. Falconer’s 
“ Memoirs,” we take leave of the remarkable Sivalik fauna, hoping 
that future geologists will endeavour to follow his example and 
bring to light yet other “lost creations” from that region, so 
rich in fossils, yet comparatively unexplored. Would that the 
English Government could see their way to follow the example 
of the United States, and send out a scientific expedition to 
explore this wonderful region ! There can be no doubt that a 
rich harvest lies waiting there to be reaped. 
“ What a glorious privilege it would be, could we live back — 
were it but for an instant — into those ancient times when these 
extinct animals peopled the earth ! to see them all congregated 
together in one grand natural menagerie — these mastodons and 
elephants, so numerous in species, toiling their ponderous forms 
and trumpeting their march in countless herds through the swamps 
and reedy forests ! to view the giant Sivatherium, armed in front 
with four horns, spurning the timidity of his race, and, ruminant 
though he be, proud in his strength, and bellowing his sturdy 
career in defiance of all aggression ! And then the graceful 
giraffes, flitting their shadowy forms like spectres through the 
trees, mixed with troops of large as well as pigmy horses, and 
camels, antelopes, and deer ! And then, last of all, by way of 
contrast, to contemplate the colossus of the tortoise race, heaving 
his unwieldy frame, and stamping his toilsome march along 
plains which hardly look over strong to sustain him ! 
“ Assuredly it would be a heart-stirring sight to behold ! But 
although we may not actually enjoy the effect of the living 
