The fragment which accompanied the specimen was given to Mr. Smith by Mr. St. John of Valetta, who stated that he found it, encrusted with stalagmite and adherent to the rock, in the island of Gozo. According to Dr. Falconer, it consists of two plates of a young grinder of the true Elephas primigenius . The occurrence of so large an animal in a locality of such limited extent seems to point to a period when it was connected with a continent.