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of the skeleton as it now stands, may be seen on the wall of the 
big Geological Gallery at South Kensington (No. L on plan), near 
the specimens of Mammoth tusks. But it should be pointed out 
that the tusks are put on the wrong way ; for they curve outwards 
instead of inwards, thus presenting a somewhat grotesque appear- 
ance. For this reason we have not reproduced the familiar 
woodcut based on an engraving in the memoir already referred 
Fig. 52. — Skeleton of Mammoth, Elephas primigenhis (partly restored), in 
the Museum at Brussels. Drawn from a photograph, by J. Smit. 
to.^ But we give, instead, a sketch taken from a photograph (also 
on the wall in gallery No. I.) of a fine skeleton in the Brussels 
Museum (Fig. 52). Here the tusks are seen correctly inserted. 
We must also draw the reader’s attention to the remarkably fine 
History Museum (pier case 31) in a tall glass jar. ' It came from frozen soil, 
Behring Strait. By the side of this will be seen, -in a glass box, a portion of 
the skin of a mammoth, from the banks of the river Alaseja, Province of 
Yakutsk, Siberia. It exhibits the under fur, the long hair having entirely 
disappeared. 
^ Fig. 32 in Part I. of the Gtiide to the Exhibition Galleries in the Depart- 
ment of Geology and Palceontology f;z the British Museum {Natural History)^ 
Cromivell Road. (Price is.) This most useful guide should be consulted by 
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