FOSSIL REMAINS. 
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This curvature is very frequent but not constant in fossil tusks ; it occurs also 
sometimes in the tusks of recent elephants : there is a similar double curvature in the 
recent tusk of a small elephant from Ceylon in the possession of the Earl of Car- 
narvon, at Highclere, Hants. 
. 5. Femur of elephant. 
6. Epiphysis from the lower extremity of another femur of elephant. 
7. Tibia of elephant. 
8. Scapula of elephant. 
9. Os innominatum of elephant. 
] 0. Os calcis of elephant. 
Plate III. — (Fossils.) 
. 1. Head of a bos urus, in precisely the same condition with the fossil bones of 
elephants, and very different from the state of the head of a musk-ox with the 
external case of the horns still attached to it, which was brought home with 
the fossil bones, and was found with them on the beach at the bottom of the mud 
cliff in Eschscholtz Bay, but is so slightly decayed that it seems to have been de- 
rived from a carcass that has not long since been stranded by the waves. This head 
of a musk ox is not engraved, as it cannot be considered fossil. 
2. External horny case detached from the bony core of the horn of an ox : it is in a 
state equally fresh with the head of the musk ox just mentioned ; and, like it, 
appears to be derived from an animal recently cast on shore. 
3. Femur of an ox. 
4. Tibia of an ox. 
5. Metatarsus of an ox. 
6. Humerus of an ox. 
7. Metacarpus of an ox. 
8. Dorsal vertebra of an ox. 
9. Dorsal vertebra of an ox. 
10. Os calcis of an ox. 
11. Base of the horn of a deer, similar to horns that occur in the diluvium of England, 
and somewhat resembling the horn of a rein-deer. 
12. Tibia of a large deer. 
13. Radius of a large deer. 
14. Astragalus of a horse. 
15. Metacarpus of a horse. 
16. Metatarsus of a horse. 
17. Cervical vertebra of an unknown animal. It has been compared with all the 
skeletons in the collection at Paris, by Mr. Pentland, without finding any to which 
it can be referred : he thinks the nature of the articulation more resembles that 
in the sloth and ant-eaters than in any other animal ; but the bone differs from 
them in other respects, and approaches to the character of the Pachydermata. The 
animal, whatever it was, seems to have differed essentially from any that now 
inhabit the Polar Regions of the Northern Hemisphere. 
