230 Mr. G. J. Hinde’s Notes on the 
“5. Small bovine bones. Three fragmentary metatarsals, 
one metacarpal, one astragalus, and one fragment of the right 
mandibular ramus, showing pm. 4. These are much smaller 
than the corresponding bones of Bos primigenius, and precisely 
similar to those from later deposits commonly ascribed to Bos 
longifrons. Whether or not they truly belong to this latter 
species cannot be determined in the absence of the skull; but if 
they are of this form, the discovery is interesting as proving for 
the first time the association of B. longifrons with the British 
Pleistocene Mammalia. Prof. Boyd Dawkins believes that the 
small ox in question was first introduced into this country by 
the Neolithic peoples, and he regards the Mitcham bones as 
belonging to a small bison. They seem to me, however, to be 
too slender for the latter, and the problem must be left for 
solution by further discoveries.” 
From another gravel-pit at Mitcham, the basal fragment of a 
deer’s horn was lately obtained by Mr. Joseph Hall, of Croydon, 
which has been determined by Mr. Smiti Woodward as belong- 
ing to the roebuck, Capreolus caprea. 
I may here also refer to some teeth from the drift gravel at 
Scarbrook Hiil, Croydon, and from gravels at the Brighton 
Road exhibited and described to the Club some years since by 
the late Dr. Carpenter.* Through the kindness of Mrs. Car- 
penter, I have been enabled to submit these teeth to my friend 
Mr. Smith Woodward, and he has determined that those from 
Scarbrook Hill belong to the horse, but they are recent and not 
fossil specimens, and the worn ruminant teeth from the Brighton 
Road gravels belong to Bos primigenius. 
My observations on the gravels of the Wandle valley do not ex- 
tend further north than the pits at Mitcham, which are about four 
miles from the Thames at Wandsworth, and 60 ft. above O.D. 
The absence of materials foreign to the Wandle drainage basin 
in these gravels tends to prove that at this place there has been 
no intermixture with the gravels of the main Thames valley. 
The gravels referred to above are nearly entirely composed of 
flint materials, the fragments of other kinds of rock form but a 
very insignificant proportion of the total mass. ‘These flint 
materials have, in the first instance, all been derived from the 
flint nodules in the Upper Chalk, but only some have come 
directly into the gravels from the chalk; a good proportion of 
them have formed part of other formations, and from these they 
have found their way into the gravels. We can distinguish the 
following :—(1). Flint nodules of various sizes, some fresh and 
hardly at all worn, others subangular and more or less rounded. 
These haye come either directly from the erosion of the chalk of 
* *Proc. Croydon Micro. and Nat. Hist. Club, 1878-1881,’ p. li. 
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