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It weighed four pounds, was in perfect preservation, and showed 

 the concentric ridges for the attachment of the intervertebral 

 cartilages, in a well-marked manner. 



Professor Turner, of Edinburgh University, to whom I am 

 indebted for the identification of the Fossils, considers this bone 

 to have belonged to a species of Balcenoptera still existing. Close 

 to this fossil was found the most interesting of all the relics — a 

 portion of the skull of the Bos primigenms, with both horn-cores 

 in situ. The greater part of the skull was absent, but the cores 

 were perfect. 



The weight was 22 lbs. 



The length of core along posterior curve - 26^ in. 



Do. do. anterior do. - 21 „ 



Distance between tips of cores - - - 27 „ 



Breadth of forehead between cores - - 10 „ 



Circumference of core at root - - - 1 2| „ 



The discovery of this fossil at once settled any doubts as to the 

 origin of the humerus. Curiously enough, just at this time, while 

 excavations for a gas reservoir were going on, some five hundred 

 yards further inland, another skull of the Bos primigenius, with 

 horns attached, was dug up. This was not so good a specimen 

 as the last, the horn-cores being much decayed. It was found 

 about ten feet from the surface, lying in sand, over a bed of grey 

 marl, which is, probably, of lacustrine origin. It thus differed 

 from the dock specimen, which was found in the gravel over the 

 boulder-clay. 



There was next found another caudal vertebra of Balcenoptera, 

 much smaller than the first, and probably belonging to a part near 

 the extremity of the tail. Other bones of the Bos primigenius were 

 discovered soon afterwards, viz : — 



(i) A Tibia, weighing three pounds fourteen ounces, and 

 measuring nineteen inches in length, five-and-a-half inches across 

 the articular surfaces of the head, and twelve inches in circum- 

 ference at the anterior tubercle. (Plate 3, fig. i.) 



