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NOTE ON OVIBOS MOSCHATUS, BLAINVILLE. By M. E. LAETET, For.Mem.G.S. 



[Translated by the late H. Christy, Esq., F.K.S., F.G.S., and read before the Geological Society of London, 

 June 7, 1865*. Reprinted with permission of the Council of the Geological Society.] 



CUVIEK, has given the history of three skulls of Ovibos moschatm discovered in 

 Siberia, and figured by Pallas and Ozeretskovskyf. 



In 1846 M. Giebel J noticed the existence, in the Museum of Halle, of part of 

 a skull found in the neighbourhood of Merseburg. 



In 1852 Sir John Richardson, in the ' Zoology of the Herald,' gave a list and 

 figures of some remains of Ovibos moschatm brought from the Bay of Esch- 

 scholtz, with bones of Elephants, Reindeer, and other Mammals. 



In 1855 Professor Owen described, under the name of J3os moschattis, a fine 

 fragment of skull of Ovibos moschatus, discovered by the Rev. Charles Kingsley 

 and Sir John Lubbock at Maidenhead, in Berkshire, in a bed of low-level gravel, 

 of which Mr. Prestwich gave at the same time a description ]| , with a sketch of 

 the bed, in which he afterwards found an Elephant's tooth. 



In the third edition of the 'Antiquity of Man ' Sir Charles Lyell further cites a 

 skull of Ovibos moschatus, found by Sir John Lubbock, near Bromley, Kent, in 

 the valley of a small affluent of the Thames ; and also two other skulls, male 

 and female, discovered in the Drift of the Avon [at Freshford], near Bath-Easton, 

 by Mr. Charles Moore ^f . 



In the same page of the 'Antiquity of Man' Sir Charles Lyell further mentions 



* [Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxi. pp. 474-476. A brief notice of the discovery of the Ovibos at the 

 Gorge d'Enfer was also given to the Geological' Society of France, April 3, 1865, ' Bull. Soc. geol. de 

 France,' 2 ser. vol. xxii. p. 335. EDITOR.] 



t Ossemens foss. 4to, vol. iv. pp. 155-159. 



% Leonhard und Bronn's ' Neues Jahrbuch,' 1846, p. 460. 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1856, vol. xii. pp. 124-131. 



|| Hid. pp. 131-133. 



If Antiquity of Man, 3rd edit. p. 156. [See also Cunnington, 'Wilts Magazine,' vol. iv. ; C. Moore, 

 ' Bath Nat.-Hist. and Antiq. Field-Club,' March 10, 1869 ; and for notices in full of the remains found in 

 England (at Maidenhead, Greenstreet-Green, Freshford, Barnwood, Salisbury, and Crayford), see W. Boyd 

 Dawkins's ' Monograph on Ovibos moschatus,' Palscontographical Society, 1872, pp. 19 &c. EDITOR.] 



