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APPENDIX. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST PERFECT SPECIMENS OP ANIMAL REMAINS BROUGHT HOME BY 
CAPTAIN BEECHEY FROM ESCHSCHOLTZ BAY, AND SELECTED BY DR. BUCKLAND TO BE 
ENGRAVED IN PL. 1, 2, 3, (fOSSILS). ALL THESE SPECIMENS ARE DEPOSITED IN THE 
BRITISH MUSEUM. 
Plate I. — (Fossils.) 
Fig. 1. Lower jaw of extinct elephant, containing two molar teeth. 
2. Profile of No. 1, on the left side. 
3. Molar tooth of elephant. 
If we compare this jaw and the teeth with the fossil jaws and teeth described by- 
Cuvier, we shall find them to exhibit all the leading characters pointed out by that 
great naturalist, as distinguishing the fossil elephant from any existing species. 
First. 1 he teeth possess that broadness of surface which is more constant in the 
fossil teeth than either the greater number or greater thinness of the component 
laminae. 
Secondly. The position of the teeth in the jaw is at a less acute angle, and more 
nearly parallel than in the recent species. 
Thirdly. The channel within the chin at the junction of the two sides of the jaw is 
broader in proportion to its length; the exterior projecting point of the chin, also 
at the apex of the jaw, is not so prominent as in recent elephants, but truncated as 
in the fossil species. Compare this jaw with those of fossil elephants engraved 
in Cuvier’s Osscmens Fossiles, vol. I. pi. II. fig. I, 4, 5. PI. V. fig. 4, 5. PL VIII. 
fig. 1. PI. IX. fig. 8, 10. PI. XL fig. 2. 
4. An ivory scoop, purchased by Captain Beechey from the Esquimaux, and made of a 
portion of a very large fossil tusk ; it shows at the extremities of the excavated 
part at A and B a point that indicates the axis of the tusk ; this ivory is firm and 
solid, and m nearly the same high state of preservation as the entire tusks from 
Eschscholtz Bay. 
Plate II. — (Fossils.) 
I ig. 1 . Entire tusk of an elephant, measuring ten feet in the curve and six inches in diameter 
at the largest part, and weighing one hundred and sixty pounds. 
2. Another tusk of an elephant nine feet six inches in the curve. 
Both these tusks are nearly perfect ; two other tusks of nearly the same size 
have marks of having been chopped with some cutting instrument ; this has pro- 
bably been done by the Esquimaux to ascertain their solidity and fitness for making 
their utensils: the large scoop made of fossil ivory — see Plate I. — (Fossils) fig. 4- — 
shows that these people apply the fossil tusks to such purposes. The tusks which 
are thus chopped appear to have been left on the shore as unfit for use, on account 
of the shattered condition of their interior. 
3, 4. Longitudinal view of the tusks represented laterally in figs. 1, 2. They both 
possess the same double curvature as the tusks of the great fossil elephant in the 
Museum at Petersburg!! from the icy cliff at the mouth of the Lena, in Siberia. 
