The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-18 00:00:00

PROFESSOR OWEN AND DR.LIVINOSTON A:

THE SOCIIITY OF ART&

Loot mooing Professor Own, late of the Royal
coop of Ihstrows. sad sow of the British liwoosas,
gave tatarostisg Imam at the Boon of the Society
of Arts is the ivory sad tooth of wwwworoo.

Jaw some peeliniasty monks meet Ward Wooten,
particularly that .t boas, Professor Ogre. wooded to the
intoodiate ostetet of his peper—Hat of ion,. The tub-
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stores el ties tooth of mho; "aims% bond's this idspheat is
used In sues a Ivosy. Formerly indeed, sad still by
meas, tits awns ivory is gives to the aria rabstaaes at the
tooth of all mind, ; bat it is sow by as best anatomists
sad physiologists rankled to that asodificotice of den*
tom or tooth subbases which la trainer's esetionsor trea-
ter's shows Hass of differsat colours. or stria,,proosediat in

the etc of s girds, sad forming by theli decimations
minute cervillaser lossageottepsd Mame. By this chsemau
whist% is pose sated by the very smallest portico of ea
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elephoot's talk is treysverse mike or fracture, true ivory
may be diatiagalehed front every other kind of tooth lab.
emu*, sad ire= every comatorfelt, whether derived from
tooth or bone. It Is a shwa der—thie sagise-torsed &our.

sating appearsace—wh {eh is as elssiseseislis of fossil
re of resent Jest,. Alithemplb. lamer, so other
teeth except than of the alephest pessent the she-
reatetiedo of trim ivory, there are teeth in many
other species of animas w►ich, from their large size, end
the density of their prissipal abatises, Sr. meld in the
arts for parpota analogous to them for which true ivory is
mead, and some of these dimities tissues, m thou, of the
large tasks of the hippopotamus, are more serviceable for
sertais purposes, especially in the neassfeotere of artificial
teeth, thou say other Wad of tooth substaacie. The utility
of Meth la sematircs or the arts depends chiefly oa a pecu-
liar medifisatice is their laws of growth. For the most part,
Iselh—es is ear own frassee—baving attained a metals site
esti shape, mew to grow ; but there are other teeth, sash
as the frost tooth of the rat, rabbit, sad all the rodent tribe,
the tusks of the boar sad hippopotamus, the loop despend-
iag cosine tutu of the wane, the still imger spiral horn-
like task of the narwhal, sad the Ivory tusk. of the ele-
phant, whist are endowed with the property of growlag
as long as the satinet Dyes. With reference more parties-
lady to the elephant, the prokeser observed that, in the pre-
seat oreatios, ekphaate are reatrieted to African sad Asiatic
soutineats ; sad, with rotaries to the commercial tektites
of ivory, ►t is chiefly worthy of sotto, that the
/Attie elephants' tusks of a sire which gives them the
vase of ivory la commerce, are peculiar to the males,
whilst the African elephaate, both males and females,
afford gold sized task& la former times, end before the
to:Steam of woo, utass laving tasks were Raab more
asmecons. The true eiephsat roamed is rounder buds

over the temperate sad earthen puts of Byrom, Ask,
sad MMUS, sal was sidled by the Emelas mamma.
8... .f the Imp 111 (10111210/111 k, or weed Me be, de-
mised Ilrem the Islis If these satinet spades, ef uldeb the
Wilma Anal limgeworlek ell its sea parts sad Merges
=M lb' MINS d ilkeekvis haws he The pre-
tam gave a Melted sad Isemeskg seessat d tie
kw regulative tbis peva glebe Mae smirk, teeth of
the elephastole latter moollhooft Oleffelog 0100141 w of
a_teld=isa ead elembese M the sulgeasies
se The eskesemple Miuslime of Wiry wee
ass demetbsd, sad the peeketer rumbled by • Mkt st 9
moat el mbar tusks whist met cemmustel value, suck
as these et the ,111~sese Me leeks% sal the samba.
The paper was Nealsall s I eastribstol
Masora Paisatkrey% Ash*, sad Joseph
Nam Mersa
Oa the sesslssles of the ketore, the sliskstes, Mr. J. G.
Frith, lakedesee Dr. Livisplas is the motley.
De. llaulkonot, who tem windy applauded la the
elem. el kis remarks, observed that hutting the elephaat
was sae of the best mote it mange whisk 'misted la the
world. The Afrieums believed that if • seas meld kill as
eispimat be was abk he de almost saythisg in the way ef
bestiag. Bat Waft as &Oast with dogs wee so test
M bravery, Weems the seimal, whoa besot by dogs, earned
Maly iseembie sfpreesedag Jamul( against Ms hues
sessiket. B.aeY.r be.11•(11 ge down awkwardly oa by
Yeas kyles us htil the dep, mid at ethers he would threw
Mews aum mak tie maw MOIL Meanwhile the rata
Tribdeseasset m despassh idea with es/taint,.
e *a swami homed the elephast with •
omit, bat Is Africa they generelly stood at the
di* of Ike semi at thkty yards balk'.
Mabdls w21.1a Ihiregh at •greater distance
I mail Wee dam. Mee M Atria he desired to sum-
Mk the seals* st deplissis MAIM measly, and ter
rtetperpue he leek sae of the parties who bleated his
Malls z, sad the oesibt desk sport. There were heaters
11.81 keen bulk ou ferlovih. There
WON whet themselves to be the heaven
pee* ea ohs km el Ms esistb. There were swims, and
there weft she bastard Besse. Thus latter were es/med-
ia* maxims es get held of 60 leery for the sake it the
high prise it brought. The mange of the Bspllsh 96•
ear's bag wee about 90, that et the Boer about 2, 154 that
ef
the akin and bastard Best searly half of am From
this ie we seen that Mobbed= did set seenserily pre-
date ellemtesey. The resew the Beglishmas killed more
thee every ether buster wry that be west slow up to tie
whikt the others stood a long way off, afraid
es p our, sad deeming the killing ea* *Upham
aa emet of their has. The amber of *Upbeats
M Soath Akio% se preyed by specimens brought
to Reglend by Gorda. Cammisg.wm very large, bat firthsr
meth the member was still greater. It meted strange
that while the elephants Is the south were about twelve
Mt, tikes in parts mach further to the sorb, where the
matey wee more fettle sad there was &bandeaus of food,
were ealy shoat nine feet. Still more signaler that the
tusks el the meaner specks should be three feet looser
them thee et the larger. Us bad efts, tried to esplsin It,
but be bed set ilimovered the reams 'mil that sight, wise
Prehreer Owes had told them that where the sailed we.
oodistorhed hy moo sad had abeadeat vegetation the tusks
grow .en iregalarly than in these pros where the mopes
used illre-eases. Ti. darkest, fa the north of Africa
more es neseroas that he wild scarcely mandate
at all when obey maid pcidbly beanie asthma.
There wee • difference of °oilskin shoat the
age of elephants. base imegised the elephant would
Yes 200 years, frost data obtaised in lodis ; bat In Akin
he saw past numbers of young elephant% like the email
salves they had now is Londer, sad vary aka others about
half pews following tie same dam. It would home
spar that the estimate of the sea of elephant.% simordisp
te data hand he India, was too high. But he supposed
they weald bays as oppertasity of settling the peon by
the salt which was are is the Regenthipark-gardeas.

(Laughter sod ehosoo) - . -
The eekeewledgmeats of the sealants were seeeteled to
Profane o,e•, sad the preeeethap terminated.

The Deka arid Dubin of Bedford are eitertaishig
a alettapishod sisals at Wobara Abbey. The mail
Christmas festivities will bo kepis') Ws year with the noble
dake's ateastomed whitely hospitality.

We are glad to lean that the But of Ellesmere
te reameriag from Ms resat severe Maim The noble earl
resales at Bridgwater Home.

Sir Robert sod Lady Emily Peel en entertaining
• large party at Drayton Maser. The company leclades--
The Comities of Taekervillo, the Earl and Countess of
Cletterfleld sad Lady Brays Stanhope, the Earl of Lin-
rale, Lord Musket's's, Lord Asbley, Deena Peel, Admiral
Resit,Adearal Eden, Mr. Moeckton Mem, Capt W. Peel,
Last Ward, Mr. Colonic Mr. Arthur Peel, Mr. Bogie,
Mr. PbMe, sad Mr. Clifton. The gentlemen hare had
NOW mots hi the boa. baroeet's wall•arooked preserver.
The Wight Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., has forwarded to
the Idsyoref Biddonsiester, for distribution among the sof-
trring bitailloone Imams, the make 251.

W. (news) understand that a requisition is is
' course of signatnre, collie( es Msjor•Gseral Bic Willies
Codriaitoe, IC 0.8., to allow 'dwell to be put in solitu-
des for Greenwich. There is se doubt that General Cod-
eine.' will empty with sub a requisition, U it Is as re.
epeetably signed es is expiated.

We ( Worcestershire Chronicle) hear that the Hoe.
Frederick Levee. yoaegest sea of the But of Bessettsup,
intends to offer himself se a eendidete for the borough of
Tenkesbery, in the Caneenstive interest, whenever
Tame, nay OMIT.

Thy
Bagh Clueniel• says :—" The electors of Stroud
►ays Issued sa address, pledging themselves set to vote for
say easdidate at the nest elsetioet unless be is prepared to
'Nippon every measure haviag the repeal of the kenos tat
for its oblott. Tait address le arose, signed by 'best 500
*lnlay"

The Cheltenham Examiner says There is a
yOllllBBl mi dig sliest that Ilr. Ilsith, et Aseketes Coast,
who will strata hie aiej pity ea the Erd of Joinery seat,
say peteibly offer himself se a nadidat* for the le?resea-
tames of Bristol. at the alit general election. Men than
sae at Mr. Etaith's musters sat la pastimes, for the aity.
it le farther stated as met improbable that the buoastey.
altieh *spited with the late Sir John Smyth, will be re-
neeerma en the pretest Npreseatative of this mint
faulty." _ . _

Mr. P. W. Martin, the liberal member for Ro.
skeeter, addressed ►b smetitaseas es Tumidity night,
Sleep an aseostat of kis essadatt is parliament. Afterwards
Mr. Bobey mewed a ae•e of *sake to Mr. Martin, sad also
as oarsman of onfidosse ea the pat of the elestanorkieb
hav;ai bees moomial by Mr. E. E. Colas, was carried
masimouly.