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IN NATURE, of March 6 there appeared a short notice of a piece of chalk said to be carved to represent a mammoth. This specimen was described and figured by Mr. Reid Moir in the February issue of Man, p. 17, pl. B. Examination of the figures there given shows that the object is nothing more than a somewhat imperfect natural cast of a chamber of the shell of an Ammonite. It is significant that in some parts of the country where such casts are not uncommon the quarrymen call them “pigs.”
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ANDREWS, C. Curious Markings on Chalk. Nature 103, 25 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103025b0
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