14 The Ancient Fauna of Essex.
of Yarmouth, has paid great attention to this subject, and has
made a very large collection, which is now in the south-east
gallery of this Museum; forming a most striking series of the
remains of the Mammoth, comprising an enormous number of
tusks as well as molar-teeth.11 Many of the tusks are of great
Fig. 6.—Lower Jaw of Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) dredged off the
Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, 1837. (See Geol. Mag. 1878. Decade II.
vol. v., pl. xii., p. 443). The original is preserved in the British Museum
(see Pier-case 16). [Reproduced, by permission, from the Guide to the
Geological Gallery of the British Museum.]
length and singular curvature; they all exhibit a double
twist, and this is the characteristic of all the specimens of the
Mammoth-tusks found in Siberia. This mausoleum of the
Mammoth is also rich in remains of the Reindeer, the
Gigantic Ox, and other animals; and all along the coast have
been found abundant evidences of Elephas meridionalis, the
11 See an interesting paper on the Pleistocene Mammals dredged off the
Eastern Coast, by Wm. Davies, F.G.S. Geol. Mag. 1878. Decade II.,
vol.' v., p. 97.