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URSIDvE. 



CARNIVORA. 



URSIDM. 



Fiy. 28. 



Fossil, nat. size, Gailenreuth. 



URSUS SPELvEUS. Great Cave Bear. 



BLUMENBACH, CUVI-ER, Bulletin des Sciences, par la 

 Soc. Philomath, No. 50, 1796. Annales du Mu- 

 seum, torn. vii. Ossem. Fossiles, 4to. 1823, torn, 

 iv. p. 345. 



SCHMERLING, Recherches sur les Ossem. Fossiles de- 

 couverts dans les Cavemes de la Province de 

 Liege, 4to. 1833, p. 105. 



BLUMENBACH, CUVIER, loc. cit. 



SCHMERLING, loc. cit. 



OKEN. 



Ursus fornicatus magnus, 



Ursus arctoideus, 



Ursus fornicatus minutus, 



Ursus planus, 



Fossil Bear different from the White Bear, HUNTER, Phil. Trans, vol. Ixxxiv. 1794. 



JOHN HUNTER, who first instituted an anatomical com- 

 parison between the remains of extinct Bears and the bones 

 of those of the present period, selected the White, or Polar 

 Bear, for this purpose, as being the largest existing species 

 with which he was acquainted, as well as that to which the 

 fossils of gigantic Bears from the German caverns had been 

 referred by Esper and other preceding writers. In regard 

 to the cranium, Hunter* alludes, with philosophic cau- 

 tion, to the modifications of shape which are due to age 

 in carnivorous animals, and he restricts himself to pointing 



* Loc. cit. p. 419. 



