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Livres anciens et modernes

Hunter, W.

Observations on the bones, commonly supposed to be elephants bones, which have been found near the river Ohio in America.

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Hunter, W.

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London, The Royal Society, 1768. 4to (22.6 x 17.4 cm). 13 pp., one folded plate. Disbound. = In this paper, William Hunter, a prestigious lecturer of anatomy, compares the fossil remains found by William Croghan in the Ohio Valley in 1765 to bones of the modern elephant. Hunter concluded that the creature, dubbed the "American incognitum" was distinct from the elephant, but that it may belong to the same species as the Siberian mammoth. The pronounced knobs on the teeth had convinced him that, unlike the elephant, this animal was carnivorous. Significantly, Hunter also concluded that the beast was probably extinct. Indeed, he told his audience that they should be grateful that such a monster no longer presented a threat to men. Extract from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the year 1768, not from the later abridged edition. Contents fine.
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