290 THE CAVE-BEAR. 



when it appears to have been abundant in Central Europe 

 and in the southern parts of Russia. It has not yet been 

 found in Siberia,* it is doubtful whether it has been dis- 

 covered north of the Baltic, nor has it vet been found in 



*/ 



Spain or in Ireland. In Italy, on the contrary, it has been 

 met with, and in one instance apparently in association with 

 a polished stone implement, and even pottery.^ M. Regnoli 

 has been so good as to forward me a cast of the specimen 

 on which this statement rests; it belongs to the cave-bear, 

 but I can hardly regard it as being undoubtedly contempo- 

 raneous with the pottery and stone axe which were found 

 near it. In Northern Europe no such case has yet been met 

 with, but it is of course possible that in Italy the cave-bear 

 may have survived to a more recent period than in the region 

 north of the Alps. No trace of it has yet been found by 

 Mr. Busk and Dr. Falconer among the numerous remains 

 from Gibraltar, nor has it yet been met with in Siberia. 



The late Dr. Falconer referred to this species the leg bones 

 of a bear found in Brixham Cave, above a flint implement. 

 Mr. Busk, however, who has carefully examined these bones, 

 and detached them more completely from the matrix in which 

 they were imbedded than was the case when they were 

 examined by Dr. Falconer, is of opinion that there is no suffi- 

 cient reason for referring them to Ursus spclceus rather than 

 to one of the other large species of fossil bear. 



It has been stated that remains of the cave -bear have 

 occurred in the river gravels at Ilford and Gray's Thurrocks. 

 In the opinion, however, both of Mr. Busk and Mr. Boyd 

 Dawkins, we have no clear case of the remains of this species 

 being found in river-drift gravels. In fact, as materials for 

 comparison have increased, it has proved more and more 



* Brandt, Bull, de 1'Acad. Imp. f Richerche Paleoetnologiche 

 de St. Petersburg!!, 1870, vol. vii. nelle Alpi Apuane. Nota del Dott. 

 pt. 3. C. Regnoli. 



