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... elephant . M. de la Metherie ( Theory of the Earth , vol . v . p . 200 , ) says that the tooth found near Vienne , in Dauphinè , and engraved in the Journal de Physique for February 1773 , p . 135 , seems to have belonged to the elephant ...
... elephant . M. de la Metherie ( Theory of the Earth , vol . v . p . 200 , ) says that the tooth found near Vienne , in Dauphinè , and engraved in the Journal de Physique for February 1773 , p . 135 , seems to have belonged to the elephant ...
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that the summit of the head is almost round in the African elephant , and that it rises in the Indian elephant into a kind of double pyramid . This summit answers to the occipital arcade of man and other animals , and is so high in the ...
that the summit of the head is almost round in the African elephant , and that it rises in the Indian elephant into a kind of double pyramid . This summit answers to the occipital arcade of man and other animals , and is so high in the ...
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... elephant , and as 3 to 2 in the African elephant . } 2d , The aperture of the nose is nearly in the middle of the face in the Indian elephant ; it is one - fifth further re- moved from the edge of the alveolus than from the summit of ...
... elephant , and as 3 to 2 in the African elephant . } 2d , The aperture of the nose is nearly in the middle of the face in the Indian elephant ; it is one - fifth further re- moved from the edge of the alveolus than from the summit of ...
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