lill^ FOSSIL REMAINS OF ELEPHANTS. 235 
double pyramid; but, in the African it is nearly 
. Afr " *be Indian the forehead is concave, and in 
rather convex. Several other differences 
^ full ®®cessnry to be here particularised, which seera 
II ^ cu ®^cient to mark a difference of species. 
is sufficient to enable us to determina 
'ficju^ ordinary fossil teeth of elephants are not of the 
_ ^ 
and it may be further said, that the greatei 
^b^se teeth bear a close resemblance to the East- 
ijMs of showing, on their masticating surface, 
’ill 
I'allaj So great, indeed, is the resemblance. 
equal thickness through their whole length. 
■*>H , and 
%io'^®Pbant 
■ 
most other writers, 
as being of tlie same 
have considered the 
species with the 
Of,fC 
<7'’ier, 
jfj^ies elephant’s skeleton with that 
^‘SetLi^°'''Pared the fossil skull, found 
j -le f ‘tr‘> •'nxious to discover the degree of accordance 
\^ipt. ®^il elenlmnt’^ ^Icelptnn with that of the 
living 
Siberia bj 
result of his comparison was, that in the fossil 
with those of the African and Asiatic ele 
Uj be result of his comparison was, that in the fossi 
tr^tic ?b'eoli of the tusks are much longer ; the zy 
% - 
V 
tt, 
Qf'7' is of a difterent figure 3 the postorbital apo- 
frontal bone is longer, more pointed, and 
•'I'^rabl ; and the tubercle of the os lachrymalis i« 
»f u ^''^Ser, and more projecting. To these pecu- 
*bull, M. Cuvier thinks, may be added 
Ac'" 
bo77^.> well as between those and some of the 
'be molares. 
L^'att gj ’"S together tlie bot 
Pbant, he was' able to discover 
S together tlie bones of the Asiatic and of the 
some differences 
^hich he possessed. These latter he found, in 
i th^t'ciui'[°'''^bed nearest to those of tlie Asiatic elephant. 
'"s dA- su])posing that the fossil remains are of 
lb, 'lie )^^"®'big more widely from the Asiatic elephant 
lij, it iuj brom the ass, and therefore does not 
It '*'‘*t w but that it might have existed in a cli* 
['lio*''®y. '^.bave destroyed the elephant of India. 
'A J'*. of M^'^^bre, be assumed as certain, from the obser- 
" Cuvier, that at least one species of elephant* 
\i;b>ed"l}!bich none are now known living 3 and, 
' " Sonj g^Stice of stracture which has been pointed 
the fossil teeth, be admitted as sufficien* 
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