SKULL OF A SIBERIAN MAMMOTH
UNIQUE EXHIBIT IN LONDON. At the scientific meeting of the Zoological Society, Dr. A. Smith Woodward exhibited tho skull of a Siberian mammoth which, so far as is is tho first ever to be taken to England. The late Russian Government placed an embargo on the export' of the remains of this extinct monster, retaining all examples discovered in Siberia for the National Museum, I’ctrograd. A skull reached, Paris a few weeks ago and the specimen exhibited in London was at once secured on behalf of the trustees of the British Museum.
The mammoth was obtained in the New Siberian Islands in tho Arctic Ocean by Messrs. Myers, ivory merchants, of Tower Hill. The remains consist of nearly perfect skull, with fragments of skin and dried flesh still adhering to it ,the lower jaw complete, and a pair of fine tusks, each of -which is just over 6ft. in length. The skull appears to have belonged to an adult female and the teeth are very little worn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 157, 21 March 1923, Page 7
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