Volume 13, Plate V / Mammalia (Mammals)

Elephant of the Lena

Fossil Elephant of Siberia

Found throughout Russia and especially eastern Siberia and the Arctic marshes, the Mammoth yields tusks ten to fifteen feet long, much curved with a spiral turn, prized as fossil ivory little inferior to the living kind. The Lena carcass, a male nine feet four inches high and sixteen feet long, bore a dark gray skin clothed in reddish wool and black hairs, with a maned neck, marking it an inhabitant of cold regions.