THE BEAR. Is 
the Ursus fossilis, which, so far as osteological and 
dental characters are concerned, would appear to 
have been the progenitor of the recent Ursus feroz, 
now repelled to Western North America. In this 
latter view I am supported by the distinguished 
paleontologist, Mr. Busk, F.R.S., whose differentia- 
tions, as regards several of the Irish crania, were 
RECENT CRANIUM OF BEAR. UNDER SURFACE. (} NAT. SIZE.) 
made before I commenced to study them. It may 
be said, therefore, that Ursus feror, as in England, 
belonged to the prehistoric fauna, and was a native 
of the island in the days of the Reindeer, Mammoth, 
Horse, and Wolf, with which its remains have been 
found associated, as also with exuvia of the Red- 
