LARGE FOSSIL HIPPOPOTAMUS. 399 
PACHYDERMATA. HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
Fig. 159. 
Lower jaw of Hippotamus major, # nat. size. Fresh-water clay-beds, Cromer, 
Norfolk. 
LARGE FOSSIL HIPPOPOTAMUS. Hippopotamus 
Major. 
Grand Hippopotame Fossile, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 1821, tom. i. 
p- 310, pl. i.—yi. 
Hippopotamus, PARKINSON, Organic Remains, 4to., 1811, vol. 
iii. p. 374, pl. xxi. fig. 1. 
= TrimMeER, Philosophical Transactions, 1813, p. 
131, pl. ix. figs. 1 and 3,* pl. x. 
5 Buck anp, Reliquiz Diluviane, pp. 18, 42, 176, 
pl. vil. figs. 8, 9, 10. 
Tippopotamus major, Owen, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 
223. 
In glancing retrospectively towards the dawn of the 
scientific investigation of Fossil Remains, one is struck with 
the early introduction of the idea that the Hippopotamus 
had contributed to those found in the temperate latitudes 
of Europe: this amphibious quadruped seems, in fact, 
* Fig. 2. pl. ix. is the upper molar of a Rhinoceros, but I am unable, from the 
position in which it is figured, to determine the species. 
