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BRITISH FOSSIL ELEPHANTS. 
Another lower ultimate tooth in the British Museum, from Walthamstow, Essex, 
holds twenty-two plates in 10^X3 inches and eight in 4| inches. This a thick-plated 
molar , but the cement is also in excess. 
A lower ultimate in the British Museum, from the Thames near Brentford, Mid¬ 
dlesex, has twenty-one of the anterior ridges remaining in 11 X 2J inches, and contains eight 
in 5 inches. The plates are very thick, with much cement. The crown is narrow and 
much arcuated. 
A mutilated lower ultimate molar, holdings 18, from the “post-pliocene,” Dartford, 
Kent, is in the Museum of Practical Geology. It, is noteworthy for its very thick plates 
and crimped enamel; the latter, however, is not abnormal as regards thickness, but the 
dentine and, chiefly, cement are in excess. 
An imperfect crown from gravel at Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, in the Wood- 
wardian Museum, presents thin enamel, which is crimped. There are from twenty to 
twenty-one plates, besides a posterior talon, in 8^x3 inches, and eight ridges are con¬ 
tained in a space of 2'8 inches. There is also a fragment of a tusk from the same 
locality. The molar contrasts, as regards the thickness of its plates, with a milk molar 
from the same situation, described at p. 97, whose plates are decidedly thick, whilst 
both indicate small individuals of their respective ages as is seen in the Ilford 
molars. 
The Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, contains a fragment of an ultimate molar 
holding fourteen collines in 7x3 inches. It is interesting as being from Whitby, in 
Yorkshire. The crown is typical. 
The same collection contains a fragment of a true molar fromWENDEN, in Essex, with 
a typical crown pattern, and another fragment from “valley gravel,” Booking, Essex, 
with rather thick enamel; also a piece of a last molar from Buxton, Derbyshire, and also 
a broken tooth from gravel at Kensington, London, containing eight ridges in 3^ inches. 
The plates in the last-named tooth are rather thick, with the enamel like that in Ilford 
molars, whilst two other specimens from the “brick-earths” at Sittingbourne, Kent, 
are z^iM-plated, both the enamel and cement being thin. 
An incomplete true molar, possibly an ultimate, recorded from “ Compton Bay, Isle 
of Wight (Forest Bed),” is in the Jermyn Street Collection. It is thick -plated at the 
expense of the enamel, which is inordinately thick. There is also a germ of either an 
ultimate or penultimate in the same collection from “ Freshwater Gravel, Chale Bay, Isle 
of Wight.” The characters of this tooth are not determinable with certainty. 
A fragment of one or other of the last of the series from Kent’s Cavern is in the 
British Museum. It shows, as has been already noted, thin enamel (p. 94) with faint 
crimping of the disks. 
There is an imperfect right lower last true molar from Barrington, in the Wood- 
wardian Museum, Cambridge, containing 17 a? in llx2| inches. All the elements of 
the crown are in excess, the cement in particular, and the disks present crimping with 
