The American journal of science and arts . A. Lower jaw of the Elephant foundat Jackson. B. Lower jaw of the I have not had an opportunity of comparing the teeth of thiselephant with those of the E. primogetieus. They resemblesome of those figured by Parkinson. I will give you a drawingof one of the plates of the E. Jacksoni. (I will so call it for thesake of brevity.) This drawing is rathertoo wide, in proportion to the you will see that there are sevenlines running obliquely, seven distinctribands, and five which do not extend across the tooth. Theother teeth dif
The American journal of science and arts . A. Lower jaw of the Elephant foundat Jackson. B. Lower jaw of the I have not had an opportunity of comparing the teeth of thiselephant with those of the E. primogetieus. They resemblesome of those figured by Parkinson. I will give you a drawingof one of the plates of the E. Jacksoni. (I will so call it for thesake of brevity.) This drawing is rathertoo wide, in proportion to the you will see that there are sevenlines running obliquely, seven distinctribands, and five which do not extend across the tooth. Theother teeth differ from this, having more ribands which extendacross the tooth, and only two which are broken. From thesedifferences, we think that it cannot belong to the E. primogeneusof Guvier, and yet we are not prepared to say that it is identicalwith the E. recens. I agree with you, that some other designation besides Waverlyought to be applied to the fine-grained sandstone. We ought toexclude all local names. And yet the term upper secondaryis objectionable, since this rock underlies all the coal, and is sepa-rated from the car
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