LARGE FOSSIL HIPPOPOTAMUS. 4.03 
The third specimen described in that work is a frag- 
ment of the left lower canine tusk of a young Hippo- 
potamus; it had scarcely come into use, and the pulp- 
cavity extends to near the apex of the conical and un- 
worn crown. From the absence of the transverse rugous 
markings in the enamel, and the roundness of the cir- 
cumference of this first-formed portion of the tusk, Myr. 
Parkinson was induced to suspect that it might have 
belonged to the small Hippopotamus ;* but similar modi- 
fications are observable in the recently protruded tusk of 
the young African Hippopotamus, and are doubtless due 
to the immaturity of the individual of the fossil species 
which yielded this small tusk. 
Mr. Parkinson says, ‘‘ Remains of the Hippopotamus 
have been found, I am informed, in some parts of Glou- 
cestershire :”-- and prior to the publication of the third 
volume of the ‘Organic Remains, Sir Everard Home 
had deposited in the Museum of the College of Surgeons 
a tooth — the third premolar, right side, upper jaw— of 
the Hippopotamus major, Cuv., which had been dug 
up in a field called Burfield, in the parish of Leigh, 
five miles west of Worcester. Mr. Strickland’s valuable 
observations} on the fluviatile deposits in the valley 
of the Avon, have confirmed these indications of the 
remains of the Hippopotamus in that locality, and have 
thrown much light on the conditions under which the 
extinct species of that now tropical genus of Pachyderm 
formerly existed in the ancient waters that deposited those 
sands. 
* Hippopotamus minor, a small extinct species determined by Cuvier in the 
first edition of the ‘Ossemens Fossiles,’ but of which I haye not yet met with 
any authentic remains from British strata. 
+ Op. Cit. p. 375. — $ * Proceedings of the Geological Society,’ vol. ii. p. 111. 
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