19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 17

THE ELEPHANT.

[To roe Boma or THE SPE1.1'A1,08."1

Sat,—Is there not, in your interesting article on " Elephants," in your issue of the 12th inst., an oversight as to the state- irent that "the Carthaginians were the first to utilise him in Eiropean warfare"? Pyrrhus had employed them in the Battle of Herakleia, 474 A.LT.C., 280 B.C., and terrified by them the Pomans,—for a little while.—I am, Sir, &c., E. 0.