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III.—Supplementary Note to “Pleistocene Mammals Dredged off the Eastern Coast”1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

William Davies
Affiliation:
British Museum

Extract

The late Dr. Falconer figured in the “Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,” a fine lower jaw of an adult Elephas primigenius, preserved in the National Collection, and of which he gives two views, the first as seen from above, the second a side view; and in the descriptions of the plates in the above work given in his “Palæontological Memoirs,” vol. i. p. 439, occurs the following note regarding it: “Plate xiii. A. fig. 3.—E. primigenius. English fossil specimen, with two last true molars on either side. In the last left molar there are eighteen plates in 7·7 inches. The jaw has a short beak, and one inner mentary foramen on either side. In this, as in figs. 1 and 2, representing the jaw at different ages, it is to be noted that the opposite lines of molars are more or less convergent instead of being parallel, or nearly so, as laid down by Cuvier.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1878

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References

page 444 note 1 Mr. Charlesworth subsequently used the woodcut to illustrate the wrapper of his “London Geological Journal.” The accompanying figure, Plate XII., is a careful reproduction of the original by Miss G. M. Woodward.

page 444 note 2 Brit. Foss. Mamm. and Birds, 1846, p. 259.