Batt—Fossil Mammalia of Ireland. B41 
somewhat resembling the great Dane. The figure given by Lambert (of which 
the woodcut is acopy, reduced to scale) represents, perhaps, a half-breed between 
the two, but with the mastiff characters predominating. For some years the late 
Dr. Robert Ball carried on, at the Zoological Gardens, a series of experiments in 
cross-breeding with the hope of recovering the lost type of dog indicated by this 
figure :—* 
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The discovery of several dogs’ skulls in a crannoge at Dunshaughlin, county 
Meath, as recorded by Sir William Wilde, has afforded an opportunity of making 
a comparative examination, the result of which has been to establish the truth of 
the early statements above alluded to. Thus, Dr. Leith Adams has placed side by 
side the skull measurements of one of these dogs with those of a German boar- 
hound, which at the age of three years measured 324 inches at the shoulder. 
Trish. German. 
Hength ofskulle WV. 0). 88.0eo.s), 2lOanches Gyrnijy) 9 imehes 
Breadth‘of foreheads a142 Slit U0 CBB its Me demos 15, 
Length of snout, . . . . At 4:53!, ovallsnigoetzein, 
Breadth of palate at first true atta D8oln Vou « n2ibes 
* Capt. Graham’s important work on The Irish Wolf-hound, Dursley, 1885, has ouly just come to 
hand, too late for further reference here. : 
TRANS. ROY. DUB. S0C., N.S. VOL. II. 2Z 
