II 
THE BEAR. 
Ursus arctos. 
To treat first of the earliest historic species which 
has died out, no doubt can exist that the Brown 
Bear inhabited Britain in times of which history 
takes cognisance, the few written records which have 
come down to us of its former existence here being 
supplemented by the best of all evidence, the dis- 
covery of its remains. These have been found in the 
most recent formations throughout England, which 
can scarcely be regarded as fossil, and, if not abso- 
