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glacial phenomena, the extremes of north and south latitude, 
in which undoubted remains of this ancient elephant have been 
found, necessarily imply that his constitutional flexibility was 
like that of man, capable of adaptation to very great differences 
of climate.” In Siberia he was enveloped in a shaggy thick 
covering of fur like the musk-ox, impenetrable to cold or rain. 
But we are not obliged to suppose that in his southern habitat 
he was thus clad. The fine silky fleece clothing the Cash- 
mere goats, at 16,000 feet elevation, disappears in the 
valleys in the same animal. 
The character of his teeth accords with a more promiscuous 
and more herbivorous alimentation than belongs at the present 
day to the Indian elephant. The surface is extremely like a 
well-dressed millstone. 
The African elephant has teeth more adapted to bruising 
branches of trees, and its range is consequently more limited. 
Dr. Falconer says, “ If there is one fact which is impressed 
on the conviction of the observer with more force than any 
other, it is the persistence and uniformity of the characters of 
the molar teeth in the earliest known mammoth and his most 
modern successor ” (p. 252). 
Here, then, is a most valuable testimony to stability in 
creation , given as the result of life-long research by the 
greatest authority in this particular line. 
<f Assuming the observation to be correct, what strong 
proof does it not afford of the persistence and constancy through- 
out vast intervals of time of the distinctive character of those 
organs which are most concerned in the existence and habit 
of the species” (p. 252). 
“ The whole range of the mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot 
furnish a species which has a wider geographical distribution, 
and at the same time passed through a longer period of time 
and through more extreme changes of climatical conditions, than 
the mammoth. If species are so unstable, and so susceptible 
of mutation through such influences, why does that extinct 
form stand out so signally a monument of stability ?” (p. 254). 
I am delighted to find that he adds, though apparently un- 
willingly, — 
“ Another reflection is equally strong in my mind, that the 
means which have been adduced to explain the origin of species 
by ‘ natural selection,’ or a process of variation from external in- 
fluences, are inadequate to account for the phenomena ” (p. 254). 
I have, then, the following facts to present as the result of 
my researches, such as may be admitted as fairly proven, and 
we shall see to what deductions they lend. 
First, that at a certain period of the world’s history man and 
