RHINOCEROS TICHORHINUS. 329 
belonged to a Rhinoceros, and to have come from the 
middle of the molar series of the upper jaw. But we are 
fortunately enabled to go further, and inquire into the 
exact species of Rhinoceros to which they belonged: for 
the identical fossils discovered at Chartham are now pre- 
served in the British Museum. They are noticed by 
Nehemiah Grew in his ‘Catalogue of the Rarities of 
Gresham College,’ p. 254; and were doubtless transferred 
to their present depository along with the other objects 
contained in the ancient Museum of the Royal Society. 
The annexed cut (fig. 122) is an original figure of the 
best preserved of the molar teeth from Chartham: it is 
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Upper molar tooth of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Newer Pliocene, Chartham, Kent. 
the fifth or sixth molar of the right side. It well exem- 
plifies the close analogy of the molars of the Rhimoceros 
to those of the Paleotherium (see fig. 110). We per- 
ceive the same cubical form of the crown; the grinding 
