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reason to doubt whether he did get the right tusks. They are 
nine feet six inches long. 
The skeleton of this specimen, the fame of which may be said 
to have spread all over the world, is now set np in the Museum 
of the St. Petersburg Academy, and the skin still remains 
attached to the head and feet. A part of the skin and some of 
the hair were sent by Mr. Adams to Sir Joseph Banks, who 
presented them to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.^ 
A photograph of the skeleton as it now stands, may be seen 
on the wall of the Geological Gallery at South Kensington 
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 some- 
what grotesque appearance. For this reason we have not 
reproduced the familiar woodcut based on an engraving in the 
memoir already referred to.^ But we give, instead, a sketch 
taken from a photograph (also on the wall in Gallery Xo. 1.) of 
a fine skeleton in the Brussels Museum (Pig. 107). Here the 
tusks are seen correctly inserted. We must also draw the 
reader’s attention to the remarkably fine specimen consisting 
of the skull and both tusks complete, found at Ilford in Essex. 
Plate XLVIII. shows a more recent discovery in Siberia. 
Adams’s specimen was. Dr. H. Woodward thinks, an old 
individual, and its tusks had curved upwards so much as to be 
1 A specimen of the hair of a mammoth may be also seen at the Natural 
History Museum 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. 
2 Fig. 42 in the Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department 
of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum {Natural History), Crom- 
well Road, 1904. This most useful guide should be consulted by the reader. 
Also A Guide to the Elephants, 1908. Each Qd. 
