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I.—On the Occurrence of Elephant-remains in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Robert Harkness
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The earliest discovery of Elephant-remains in the British Isles appears to have been made in Ireland, and is recorded in the xxixth volume of the Philosophical Transactions.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 72 , June 1870 , pp. 253 - 258
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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References

page 254 note 1 Smith's Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, MDCCXLVI., page 81.

page 254 note 2 Journal of the Dublin Geol. Soo., vol. iii., page 70.

page 255 note 1 Journal of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. ii.

page 257 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi., page 491.

page 257 note 1 Smith's History of the County of Kerry, page 173.

page 258 note 1 The abundance of the remains of the Megaceros Hibernicus in Ireland may probably be attributed to the absence of the hyæna and the lion from the Pleistocene fauna of this country; and also to the early separation of the country from Great Britain.