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II.—On the Curvature of the Tusks in the Mammoth, Elephas primigenius (Blumenbach)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
Henry Woodward
Affiliation:
British Museum.
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Extract

The object of this paper is to call attention to the magnificent head of the Mammoth, discovered by Antonio Brady, Esq., F.G.S., of Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex, in a brick-pit at Ilford, in 1864, and now placed in the Geological Department of the British Museum.

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Original Articles
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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 54 , December 1868 , pp. 540 - 543
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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Footnotes

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The substance of this paper was read before the International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology (Third Session), Norwich, August 25, 1868.

References

page 540 note 2 A brief account of this specimen appeared in Vol. I. of the Geological Magazine, 1864, p. 241,Google Scholar accompanied by a wood-engraving, representing, a side-view of the skull, with its one attached tusk. The specimen was not, at that time, set up in the gallery, so that the artist was unable to obtain a favourable view of its peculiar features.

page 540 note 3 Figured in the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St.Peterburg, vol. v., and in the abridged English translation of DrTilesius, 's paper, printed in London, in 1819 (Select Strzelecki Edition).Google Scholar

page 542 note 1 This has since been restored by modelling the right side and then reversing it.

page 542 note 2 The curvature of the right tusk corresponds with the left, showing that they are from the right and left side of the same head.