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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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rt of Hudson Bay, transitional in character betweenthe mammoth and Elephas columhi. Lucas supposes that this toothmay have been carried thither with a carcass or a portion of a carcassby the water or ice. This may be true, but upon such slender evidenceas this we have sometimes based a route of migration which subse-quent discoveries have proven true. It may in this instance implythat the migration was not wholly by waj^ of the Bering route andthat the hairy mammoth was indeed a circumpolar form. Thus it will be seen that these majestic creatures were great wan-derers, ranging in the course of time over nearly the entire world.FeAv mammals have been such world-wide travelers as the elephants,as their record has been exceeded only by mankind, the horses, dogs,and cats, the rhinoceroses and camels pressing close behind. It wouldseem that in each instance the perfection of the race was in a largemeasure due to the development of the migratory instinct. EVOLUTION OF THE ELEPHANT LULL. 675
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EXCAVATIONS AT BOGHAZ-KEUI IN THE SUMMER OF 1907.« (With 10 plates.) By Hugo Winckler and O. Puchstein. I. The Discovery or Clay Tablets. By Hugo Winckler. Since the beginning of the eighties of the last century, in additionto a deeper study of the ancient civilizations of the countries of theEuphrates and of the Nile, a third region has aroused the interest ofinvestigators. In 1888, A. H. Sayce for the first time collected theinscriptions written in an enigmatic style of hieroglyphics which hadbecome known within a decade and which since then have been comingto light in increasing numbers in north Syria and Asia Minor. Ithad been contended by William Wright (particularly in his book, TheEmpire of the Hittites, in 1884) that these inscriptions are connectedwith the people known as the Cheta or Chatti. This fact is now gen-erally recognized, and adapting the name to its biblical form, Hittim,these people are designated as the Hittites. Although much care-ful study has been given to th

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