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The body. 



The length of the spinal column to the last dorsal ft. in. lin. 



vertebra 7 7 4 



The length of the spinalcolumn further in a right 



line to the upper tuber ischii 9 



The length of the neck from atlas to and with the 



last neck vertebra 1 11 4 



Greatest length of one of the middle ribs without 



the cartilage 2 5 



Breadth 2 5 to G 



The extremities. 



The length of shoulder-blade 1 8 



Breadth of its base 10 



Thelengthof OS humeri between the articulations 12 



„ „ radius 12 4 



„ „ ulna with olecranon 17 6 



„ „ olecranon from the articulation ... 7 

 „ „ metacarpus between the articula- 

 tions 10 



The length of pelvis between the tub. ilii and 



ischii 2 14 



The breadth in a line between both tub. ilii Ill 



Thelengthof OS femoris between the articulations 17 



„ „ tibia 15 6 



„ „ metatarsus 11 



Remarks. — This skeleton is the most perfect specimen we 

 have hitherto possessed ; but the animal was not full-grown at 

 its death. In the museum there are several bones which indi- 

 cate somewhat larger individuals. Yet this species, as it came 

 in long after the Scandinavian boulder period, and therefore at 

 a much later time than that during which the same species lived 

 in England, has never attained to the same size here as there. 

 The skull which Prof. Owen gives in his ' History of British 

 Fossil Mammals,' London, 1846, p. 498, fig. 208*, is in length 

 3 feet 1 inch, and the distance between the points of the horn- 

 cores is more than 3 feet 6 inches, and the width of the forehead 

 is near 11 inches; os metacarpi about 10 inches 5 lines; os 

 metatarsi about 12 inches. At the Hunterian Museum in Lon- 

 don there is a horn from the same species of animal found under 

 turf in the marl, in which bones of the Cervus megaceros occur. 

 From this situation it may be concluded that it is a still older and, 

 in fact, much larger form than the preceding. It contains in 

 length, according to the upper curvature, ^ feet 2 inches, and 

 the circumference at the base is 1 foot 7^ inches ! With us 

 they neither occur so large nor from so early a period. 



Place of abode. — This colossal species of Ox, which is no longer 



* Since the foregoing was printed and after this (thirty-fourth) sheet was 

 set up, but not struck off, 1 made a journey to England, where I first ob- 

 tained the above-mentioned work, which I was not able to quote before. 



