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The Ancient Fauna of Essex. 
of Yarmouth, has paid great attention to this subject, and has 
made a very large collection, which is now in the south-east 
gallery of this Museum; forming a most striking series of the 
remains of the Mammoth, comprising an enormous number of 
tusks as well as molar-teeth. 11 Many of the tusks are of great 
Fig. 6.—Lower Jaw of Mammoth (E l ep has pri mi genius) dredged off the 
Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, 1837. (See Geol. Mag. 1878. Decade II. 
vol. v., pi. xii., p. 443). The original is preserved in the British Museum 
(see Pier-case 16). [Reproduced, by permission, from the Guide to the 
Geological Gallery of the British Museum.] 
length and singular curvature; they all exhibit a double 
twist, and this is the characteristic of all the specimens of the 
Mammotli-tusks found in Siberia. This mausoleum of the 
Mammoth is also rich in remains of the Reindeer, the 
Gigantic Ox, and other animals; and all along the coast have 
been found abundant evidences of Elephas meridian alls, the 
11 See an interesting paper on the Pleistocene Mammals dredged off the 
Eastern Coast, by Wm. Davies, F.G.S. Geol. Mag. 1878. Decade II., 
vol. v., p. 97. 
