PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. 



CHAP. IV. 



fine cranium and horn-cores, of the great fossil Auroch or 

 Bison ; a species, according to Professor Owen, that except in 

 its larger size, and in having longer and somewhat less bent 

 horns, presents no satisfactory specific distinction, compared 

 with the bones of the existing Lithuanian Auroch, 1 of which 

 a living pair were lately exhibited in the Zoological Gardens, 

 in the Regent's Park.* 



The Lithuanian Au- 

 roch, which has been 

 preserved from extinc- 

 tion solely by the pro- 

 tective laws of the Em- 

 peror, appears to have 

 abounded in the forests 

 of Europe when the 

 Romans extended their 

 conquests to the north, 

 Lies. 77. ssru. AXD HORX-CO*SS OF BISOX and overran Germany. 



The skull in the sub- 



\i* *** stze.) .p. . . , 



genus Bison or Auroch, 



differs from that of the Bos or Ox, in the convexity and greater 

 breadth of the forehead, and in the horns being placed more 



anteriorly in relation to 

 the supra-occipital ridge, 

 and in the obtuse angle, 

 and semicircular form of 

 the occipital plane. 



There is a cranium in 

 the Museum, fromDant- 

 rig, which was described 

 and figured by Klein in 

 the a Philosophical Trans- 

 actions." 



Bos pRunGExnrs, OB 

 GBEAT FOSSFL Ox. 

 WaU^case F, Room V. 

 nearly entire, is from 



LIGX. 78. SKCLL AXD HOKN-COKES OF Bos 

 PEIMIGESHS. Front view. 



This fine skull, with its horn-cores 



1 " Brit Foes. Mammals and Birds." 



Presented by the Emperor of Eossia; in compliance with the soli- 

 ilrtmiofSir Roderick Murehison. 



