Note 4 — Chapter VI

The elephant, the thigh-bone of which, measuring nearly 3 ft. in length, is drawn in Fig. 32, is a large Indian one. This species is exceeded in size by the African. See "Science from an Easy Chair," Second series, p. 123.—The largest elephant the bones of which are known is the Elephas antiquus of the Pleistocene, bigger than either of the living species and bigger than the mammoth, Elephas primigenius. The arm-bone (humerus) of one of this species (Elephas antiquus) lately dug up near Chatham and now in the Natural History Museum, is 4 ft. 3 in. in length.