. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. merate, sandstone and loam ; and contains lignite, trunks of dicoty-ledonous trees, and land and freshwater shells. The length of the skulP^ is four feet two inches ; width, twenty-nineinches. The tusks are ten feet six inches long, and twenty-six inches in cir-cumference at the base. In consequence of their slight curvature, they projecteight feet five inches in front of the head. Their apparent dispro
. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. merate, sandstone and loam ; and contains lignite, trunks of dicoty-ledonous trees, and land and freshwater shells. The length of the skulP^ is four feet two inches ; width, twenty-nineinches. The tusks are ten feet six inches long, and twenty-six inches in cir-cumference at the base. In consequence of their slight curvature, they projecteight feet five inches in front of the head. Their apparent disproportion tothe size of the skull is truly extraordinary, and exemplifies the maximizationof dental development. The weight which they, by their great leverage, musthave added to the skull of the living animal, can hardly be estimated atless than two thousand pounds ! At either end of the G-allery, in the recesses formed by the windows, arofour handsome cases with glazed top and front, in which, on receding shelves,are exhibited a numerous series of smaller fossils arranged with a zoolosicalgrouping. In the first case (on the north wall) are twenty-eight 11-—Skull of the Elephas [To face page 28.] THE WADSWORTH GALLERY. 29 Fossil Articulate^, MoIIusks and Radiates. They are as follows :
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