190 BRITISH FOSSIL ELEPHANTS. 
are in wear, excepting the posterior talon; here the cement is in excess, and the discs 
have no crimping to any very marked extent; for the most part, the latter is confined to 
the outer borders. 
The tooth is decidedly distinct from the usual crowns of E. antiquus, with which, I 
imagine, it could scarcely be confounded. This molar seems to me distinguishable from 
the equivalent molar of either of the other two British fossil Elephants. 
In Mr. Alfred Savin’s Collection at Cromer, I examined a left lower molar (No. 12) 
of nearly the same size as the above, having precisely similar characters. It holds x 7 x 
in 4 X 2 inches, and five ridges in 2J inches. The first three ridges only are invaded, so 
that in neither were the digitations worn out. The characters, however, are in keeping 
with the foregoing, with which it appears to me to claim relationship. 
A small lower molar in the King Collection, Jermyn Street Museum, from the 
Forest Bed, Cromer, shows five discs with irregular outlines. The enamel is thick, 
uncrimped, with thick wedges of dentine and much intervening cement. The crown 
widens in front, being 2 inches in breadth, maintaining an increase to the middle of 
the crown, when it rapidly narrows posteriorly, being l - 4 inches behind. The ridge 
formula is x 7 x in 4 - 8 X 2'8 inches. In its thick plates, absence of crimping and 
of central dilatation, with the usual channelling of the enamel border, the above follows 
its predecessor. On the label is written, “ Green band and no gravel,” indicating the 
particular stratum from which it was obtained. 
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Another, No. g^, in the above Collection, from the same situation, but of the upper 
jaw, is shown in PI. XVII, fig. 8. It holds a? 8 a? in 4 - 5 X 1'4 inches. Here six discs 
are in wear, with a well-marked pressure-scar in front. It is from the “ Green band and 
gravel of the Forest Bed.” 
Of foreign specimens of the last milk-molars presenting characters comparable with 
the foregoing, there is a fragmentary molar, left side, lower jaw, from the Yal d’Arno, in 
the British Museum. It is No. 38,824. The anterior talon appears to be wanting, 
leaving a formula of 8 a’ in 5xl‘7 inches, and six ridges in 3 inches. The crown is 
considerably arched and narrow, with seven discs in wear, showing characters in keeping 
with the preceding molars. But whether this is an unusually large last milk, or small 
first true, molar, may be considered doubtful. 
The Italian specimens illustrative of the third milk-molar are recorded as follows by 
Falconer:—Upper, x8x in 4’6x2‘5 ; lower, x8x in 4'6 X 1'8, x 8 x in 4'7Xl'S5, 
and x 7 a?. 1 
1 Op. cit., vol. ii, pp. Ill, 115. 
