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CHAP. VIII.
MOLAR TEETH OF ELEPHANTS.
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Fig. 18

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Elephas primigenius.

Penultimate molar, lower jaw, right side, one-third of natural size, Post-pliocene. Coexisted with man.

Fig. 19

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Elephas antiquus Falconer.

Penultimate molar, lower jaw, right side, size one-third of nature, Post-pliocene and Newer pliocene. Coexisted with man.

Fig. 20[1]

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Elephas meridionalis Nesti.

Penultimate molar, lower jaw, right side, size one-third of original, Newer pliocene, Saint Prest, near Chartres, and Norwich Crag. Not yet proved to have coexisted with man.
  1. For fig. 20, I am indebted to M.Lartet, and fig. 18 will be found in his paper in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Mars 1859. Fig. 19 is from Fauna Sivalensis, Falconer and Cautley.