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portion of a rib and the tyne of an antler completed the remains 

 which could with certainty be referred to the red-deer. Of 

 these, the metatarsal fragment presented characteristic tooth- 

 markings, and a few similar indentations were found on 

 the tyne and the shaft of the humerus. In this "find" 

 there occurred the shaft of a single phalanx of a large 

 Cetacean. The fragment was four inches in length. It 

 presented tooth-marks, and had lost its articular ends along 

 their epiphyseal planes. A number of rib fragments prob- 

 ably belonged to the red-deer, but some of them may have 

 belonged to the sheep. Lastly, there was the left humerus 

 of a bird. This bone was complete. It measured two and 

 a quarter inches in length, but it was not sufficient for 

 accurate determination. 



II. The Pkivate Collection (Mr Barnes). 



In this portion of the collection there were no fewer than 

 seventy-four fragments of mammalian bones, besides a con- 

 siderable number of large fish-bones. The great majority of 

 the mammalian bones were too fragmentary for accurate 

 identification, but it appears quite fair to assume that the 

 uncertain specimens may be referred to one or other of the 

 mammals indicated by the twenty fragments whose deter- 

 mination was possible. The red-deer and the sheep con- 

 tributed the greater number of the specimens, but several 

 fragments were distinctive of the seal, probably Fhoca 

 vitulina, while the femora and tibia of man were represented 

 by four fragments. 



The human femora belonged to one individual, but in 

 their very dilapidated condition a complete examination was 

 impossible. Enough remained to show that they represented 

 an adult person, probably a male. One of the bones was 

 minus its head and trochanters, and its internal condyle was 

 abraded away, thereby making a complete series of measure- 

 ments impossible. Only the upper third of the shaft of the 

 other femur, the right one, remained, and at both ends this 

 bone was much reduced by apparently having been gnawed. 

 The representation of the right tibia merely consisted of a 



