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Adams records remains of this species from Barton, Chesterton, 

 and Cambridge. The musk-ox is said to occur in the gravel. 



The aforesaid mammaliferous deposit at Barrington has 

 been described in considerable detail by the Rev. Osmond 

 Fisher 1 . The first report of the finding of bones in this pit, 

 which is situated in a valley between Haslingfield and Bar- 

 rington, was brought to Cambridge in 1878; somewhat later a 

 similar deposit was opened up for a short time about half-a- 

 mile higher up the valley. The matrix in which the bones 

 are embedded is a grey sand with a slight admixture of clay. 

 From the fact that many bones of the same animal are often 

 found in their natural association, Mr Fisher is of opinion 

 that the deposits were formed in a deep hole of a stream, 

 where it swept around the sides of the adjacent hill; this 

 stream being none other than the Rhee, which now drains the 

 district. The mammals recorded from Barrington include 

 the cave lion, the cave hyaena (Hyaena crocuta spelaea), the 

 badger (Meles meles}, the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), the 

 aurochs, the Pleistocene bison (Bos prisons), the red deer, the 

 great extinct Irish deer, the Pleistocene hippopotamus, the 

 so-called leptorhine rhinoceros (Rhinoceros leptorhinus), the 

 mammoth, and the straight-tusked elephant. Very note- 

 worthy is the absence of the woolly rhinoceros, and, more 

 especially, the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), and the great 

 numerical abundance of the remains of the hippopotamus. 

 These latter are remarkable for their great size ; specimens of 

 the jaws have been described and figured by Mr P. Lake in 

 the Geological Magazine for 1885 2 . 



A fossil which has given rise to much discussion is a 

 specimen of the conjoint cervical vertebrae of a small ceta- 

 cean from the Boulder-clay at Ely, preserved in the Sedg- 

 wick Museum at Cambridge. In the year 1864 the name 

 Palaeobalaena sedgwicki was proposed by Professor Seeley 8 



1 Quart. Journ. GeoL Soc. xxxv. 670 (1879). 



2 Series B, vol. n. 318. 



3 Proc. Camb. Phil Soc. i. 228. 



