. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. MAMMALIA. 35 inches in circumference at the base. In consequence of their slight curvature, they project eight feet five inches in front of the head. The length of the skull is four feet two inches; width, twenty-nine inches. The apparent disproportion of the tusks to the size of the skull is truly extraordinary, and exemplifies the maxi- mization of dental development. By this great leverage they must have added to the skull of the living animal a weight of ne
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. MAMMALIA. 35 inches in circumference at the base. In consequence of their slight curvature, they project eight feet five inches in front of the head. The length of the skull is four feet two inches; width, twenty-nine inches. The apparent disproportion of the tusks to the size of the skull is truly extraordinary, and exemplifies the maxi- mization of dental development. By this great leverage they must have added to the skull of the living animal a weight of nearly two thousand pounds. The molars present seven or eight ridges, and the valleys between are filled with a large quantity of cement. The original, preserved in the British Museum, was discovered in that classical palseontological ground—the Sewalik Hills of India—in a Miocene deposit, consisting of concretionary grit, conglomerate, sandstone, and loam, and containing lignite, trunks of dicotyledonous trees, and land and fresh- water shells. Price, with mountings, and packed, $ No. 129. Elephas bombifrons, Falc, and Cant. Skull. From the same locality and Museum as Elephas Oanesa. Size, 3 ft. x 1 ft. 10 in. Price, $ No. 130. Elephas Hysudricus, Falc. and Caut. Skull. This species is an intermediate form between Falconer's subgenera— Loxoclon and Eueleplias. The specimen was found in the Miocene of the Sewalik Hills, India, and is in the British Museum. Size, 2 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 2 in. Price, $ No. 131. Elephas meridionalis, Nesti. Lower Jaw. From Diluvium of the Val d'Arno, Tuscany. The original specimen is in the Museum of the University of Pisa. Size, 2 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 8 in. No. 132. Elephas primigenms, Blum. Lower Jaw, young. This is the latest form of true Elephant which lived in a temper- ate latitude, and is the best known of all the fossil species. The range of the animal was apparently between the 40th and 70th par- allels of latitude; and its
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