344 RHINOCEROS. 
A fragment of the left tibia. 
Two portions of metatarsal bones of the right hind-foot. 
The size and form of the teeth, and the thick and strong 
proportions of the remains of the bones of the extremities, 
indicate them to have belonged to an animal of the same 
species as that still more entire specimen discovered in the 
Derbyshire cavern. 
The state of the epiphyses of the long bones proves that 
the animal had not quite reached maturity; but m the 
same cavernous fissure, at Oreston, there was found part of 
the right humerus of an older individual of the Rhinoceros 
tichorhinus. 
The broken bones have suffered from clean fractures ; 
none of them are gnawed or waterworn: the cavern con- 
taining them was fifteen feet wide, twelve feet high, forty- 
five feet long ; it was filled with solid clay, in which the 
bones were imbedded: they were situated about three feet 
above the bottom of the cavern.* 
In similar and adjoining caverns (fig. 50, 4 and z) detached 
bones and teeth of the same extinct species of Rhinoceros 
were found; they were associated in one of the fissures with 
remains of a large species of Deer, and of the Ursus speleus ; 
in another with fossil bones of Hquus, Bos, Cervus, Ursus, 
Canis, Hyana, and Felis spelea. None of the bones 
exhibit marks of having been gnawed or broken by the 
teeth of the great cave-haunting Carnivora ; but both these 
* Philosophical Transactions, 1617, p. 176: the specimens are now preserved 
in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. One of the bones 
was analyzed by Mr. Brande, who found it to consist of 
Phosphate of lime 
5 ; 60 
Carbonate of Lime. ‘ : ; a) 28 
Animal matter . , F : : 2 
Water and loss ; ci 10 
