12 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
lutely identical with those of the Bear which still 
exists in many parts of the European continent at all 
events indicate only a variety.” 
In Britain, says Professor Boyd Dawkins, the Bear 
survived those changes which exterminated the cha- 
racteristic post-glacial mammalia, and is found in 
the prehistoric deposits both in Great Britain and 
Ireland, and is of considerable interest, because it is 
the largest of the post-glacial carnivores which can be 
brought into relation with our history. A nearly 
perfect skull from the marl below the peat in Manea 
Fen, Cambridgeshire, and now in the Woodwardian 
Museum, Cambridge, has been described and figured 
by Professor Owen, who has also described portions 
of another skull from the same locality. In 1868 
Dr. Hicks found remains of the Brown Bear in peat 
at St. Bride’s Bay ; and numerous bones and teeth 
of this animal have been discovered at various times 
in Kent’s Cavern, Devonshire. 
The exploration of the Victoria Cave, near Setile, 
revealed the fact that the Brown Bear afforded food 
to the Neolithic dwellers in the cave, who have left 
the relics of their feasts and a few rude implements 
at the lowest horizon; the broken bones and jaws 
of this: animal lying mixed up with the remains of 
the Red-deer, Horse, and Celtic Shorthorn.t 
Nor are we without direct testimony that the 
Bear was killed by the hand of man during the 
Roman occupation of Britain. In the collection of 
* Owen, “ British Fossil Mammals,” p. 78. 
+ Boyd Dawkins, Pop. Sci. Review, 1861, p. 247. 
