[128] Cope, American Naturalist, xxxi. 1897, p. 485.
[129] American Nat. February 1900, p. 89.
[130] It must be borne in mind that the teeth increase in complexity, those first pushed up having the fewest plates. The first has only four transverse plates.
[131] Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 420.
[132] See Krueg, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. xxxiii. 1881, p. 652, and Beddard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 311.
[133] So convinced are some persons of the untameable character of the African Elephant, that it has even been suggested that the animals with which Hannibal crossed the Alps were not E. africanus, but a now extinct species!
[134] Wild Beasts and their Ways, London, 1890.
[135] See Natural History of the Ancients, by Rev. M. G. Watkins, London, 1896.
[136] Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Acclimat. xlv. 1898, p. 41.
[137] Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. 1874, p. 1.