Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 325
readily distinguished fromthose of the mastodon, another large hebiverous animal belong-ing to this period, by a peculiar structure wTe will now describe.We here represent the teeth of the recent and fossil elephant; athe African, b the Indian or Asiatic, c the Siberian or fossil. Inthe first… … different substances ; the enamel, exhibited by the white loz-enges or bands, and which extends quite through the tooth to theroots ; the ivory inside of the lozenges, and the crusta peirosa orstony crust outside. The tooth of the mastodon represented be-low, consists of ivory and enamel only ; the…
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