88 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



border, gules, with a narrow edge, vert. Above are 

 two oak-branches crossed, proper, embowering an 

 escallop shell, azure."* 



In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 are preserved two of the inferior incisors, and the 

 right and left lower canines of a Wild Boar which, 

 with a quantity of hazel nuts, were transmitted to 

 John Hunter in May, '1787, by Mr. Jones, of 

 Abingdon, accompanied by a letter in the following 

 terms : 



" The inner jaw of a Wild Boar or some other ani- 

 mal, and the nuts which I have taken the liberty to 

 enclose in the box, were a few days since found about 

 ten feet under ground by a labourer as he was dig- 

 ging peat or turf. Several single tusks have been 

 found, and they were all worn in the manner you 

 will observe these to be at the extremities ; and the 

 quantity of nuts was very considerable : they seemed 

 to lay in a layer of white sand between the strata of 

 peat. From whence could they come ? Is it possible 

 they could remain there ever since the deluge ? 



(Signed) W. JONES. 



"Abingdon, Berks.. May 23rd, 1787." 



" The layer of sand and nuts extended upwards of 

 eighteen feet horizontally. " 



In the same Museum, specimen No. 1079, is 

 the left inferior tusk of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) 



* Allen, "Hist. Co. Lincoln" (1830), vol. ii. p. 241. 



