ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS.— PELYIC GIRDLE. 
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Specimen 2. The acetabulum is 6x5^ inches ; width of the neck of the ilium 
8 inches. 
Specimen 3. Repeats the two former. 
Specimen 4. Maximum breadth of ilium 33 inches. 
Width of neck of ditto 7 „ 
The sciatic notch is here so deep as to form almost a foramen at the upper end of 
the oval. 
The acetabulum is C X 5^ inches. 
Specimen 5 includes the sacrum, with five ancliylosed vertebra;; its lumbo-articular 
surface is 4f in a. p. diameter, by 6| inches in the transverse diameter. 
In the Owles Collection, B. M., from the Dogger Bank, there are several fragments. 
No. 46,268 has an acetabulum 7 X 6f inches, with a nearly complete sciatic notch. No. 
46,267 has the foramen ovale 9 J X 4 inches, whilst the acetabulum is 7k X 7]. In this 
bone the foramen ovale and cotyloid notch are as in the Asiatic. 
C 
The Brady Collection from Ilford furnishes also further data, viz., . Acetabulum 
C 
6X5‘6 inches. Foramen ovale 6 (height), 3| (breadth). No. yyj. Acetabulum 6X 5'6. 
A right os innominatum of F. primigenius, in the Gunn Collection, Norwich Museum, 
dredged off Yarmouth, has the foramen ovale 7x3 inches. 
The pelvis, No. 2744 e, of an enormous Asiatic Elephant in the Museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons of England is portion of a skeleton of, perhaps, one of the 
largest individuals hitherto brought to Europe. The humerus is referred to at pages 59, 
153 and 215, and shown in Plate XYI, fig. 4, and the femur at page 164. The perfec¬ 
tion of the ossa innominata, which are completely anchylosed at the pubic symphysis, offer 
some excellent measurements in comparison with the pelvic elements of the extinct 
species, more especially the huge bones of E. meridionalis, from the Forest Bed in the 
Norwich Museum. These are as follows : 
1. Prom the anterior superior spine of ilium to the symphysis pubis is 24k (linear), and 
27 inches by tape along the margin. In No. 225, E. meridionalis, Gunn Collection, 
Norwich Museum, the former is 34 inches. 
2. From anterior superior spine of ilium along the upper border to the sacro-iliac 
symphysis is 28 inches (linear), 33 by tape. In No. 225, Gunn Collection, the former is 
48, and the latter 67 inches. 
3. Height from brim of acetabulum to the anterior superior spine of ilium 13 (linear), 
15 by tape. In No. 225 these two are 18 and 21 inches respectively. 
4. Girth of neck of ilium 19J inches. In No. 225 it is 29| inches. 
5. Pubic symphysis to sacrum 18 linear, round the basin 23 inches. In 225 the 
former is 20 inches, latter 26 inches. 
6. Maximum breadth of ilium, 16 inches. In 225 it is 25 inches. 
7. Sacro-iliac symphysis 14x9 inches. 
