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Stroud, and is now in the Museum of the Royal Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, Cirencester, which measures upwards of 15 feet in length. 
11. Portion of a large lower molar tooth. Presented by Dr. 
Fowler . 
12. Portion of molar tooth. Presented by Mr. John Harding. 
13. 14, 15, and 19. Lower molar teeth. Deposited by Dr. Black- 
more. 
16 and 17. Portions of upper molar teeth. Presented by Dr. 
Fowler. 
18. Portion of upper molar tooth, from shell marl below the Peat, 
Berkshire. Presented by Mr. Jaynes Bawlence. 
Before the researches of Cuvier, the various elephantine remains, 
found in the superficial tertiary deposits, were looked upon as 
mere varieties of the existing Asiatic species, and, absurd as it may 
now seem, persons were not wanting who boldly attributed the 
fossil remains of the Mammoth, frequently disinterred in almost 
every county in England to the one elephant imported by Csesar. 
There are, however, well marked anatomical differences. Those 
in the molar teeth are thus well described by Professor Owen :— 
“ The grinders are broader and have narrower and more numerous 
and close-set transverse plates and ridges than in other elephants. 
In the existing Indian species the molars are relatively narrower, 
the plates are less numerous, and their enamelled border is fes¬ 
tooned. In the African elephant the plates are still fewer, are 
relatively larger, and so expanded at the middle as to present a 
lozenge-shape.” The adult Mammoth was at least a third larger 
than the largest of the existing elephants, and no animal of the 
drift fauna could have presented a more startling appearance, with 
its long, shaggy coat of reddish brown hair and strange horn-like 
tusks. 
20 and 21. Lower molar and part of upper molar of Elephas 
antiquus , found in digging sand in the side of a chalk hill at 
Dewlish, Dorset, July, 1814. This deposit is mentioned 
by Mr. Hall, in the “Monthly Magazine” for May, 1814. 
Deposited by Dr. Blackmore. 
22. Tichorhine Rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros tichorhinus ), upper molar 
tooth, found near Bath. Presented by Miss Salisbury. 
23 to 29. Upper molar teeth, of different ages, the grinding surface 
being altered by the wearing down of the teeth in the mastica¬ 
tion of food. Deposited by Dr. Blackmore. 
30 and 31. Portions of upper molar teeth. Presented by Dr. 
Fowler. 
32 to 36. Lower molar teeth. Deposited by Dr. Blackmore. 
The Tichorhine rhiuoceros, as well as the Mammoth, was fur¬ 
nished with a thick coat of woolly hair, which enabled it to resist 
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