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II.—Prof. E. D. Cope, on the Proboscidea

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The following account of the Proboscidea, by Prof. E. D. Cope, appeared in a recent number of the “American Naturalist” and is so interesting, that we venture to give the more important part in full, and some few of the illustrations.—Edit. Geol. Mag.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 10 , October 1889 , pp. 438 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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page 438 note 1 No. 268, April 1889, pp. 191–211, pl. ix.–xvi. and nine woodcuts.

page 439 note 1 Gen. nov. type, Elephas Cliftii, Falc. & Cautl. (Mastodon elephantoides, Clift).

page 440 note 1 Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the Brit. Mus., pt. iv. p. 72.

page 440 note 2 In compiling this list I have been greatly aided by the Memoirs of Lydekker in the “Palæontologia Indica” and the Catalogue of the British Museum.

page 440 note 3 M. proævus, Cope, 1884, not 1873.

page 440 note 4 According to Lydekker no premolars have been seen in this species.

page 440 note 5 M? floridanus, Leidy.

page 440 note 6 M. andium, Cuv. According to the recent researches of Burmeister, this species does not possess mandibular tusks (Sitzungsb, . Kön. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1888, p. 717.)Google Scholar Hence the specimen from Mexico with such tusks, reported by Falconer, must be assigned elsewhere.

page 440 note 7 This species is said by Lydekker not to possess premolars. Leidy, Report U.S. Geol. Surv. Terrs. Pl., figures a tooth as a premolar, and similar specimens are not uncommon.

page 440 note 8 According to Lydekker, premolars have not been observed.

page 441 note 1 Mastodon, Clift.; Stegodon, Falc.; Elephas, Lyd.

page 443 note 1 From the American Naturalist, 1884, p. 524.Google Scholar

page 446 note 1 Extinct Mammalia of Dakota and Nebraska, p. 398.

page 448 note 1 Mon. Pal. Soc. 1879, Brit. Foss. Elephants, p. 69, pl. vi. and vii.Google Scholar