RHINOCEROS TICHORHINUS. 



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belonged to a Rhinoceros, and to have come from the 

 middle of the molar series of the upper jaw. But we are 

 fortunately enabled to go further, and inquire into the 

 exact species of Rhinoceros to which they belonged : for 

 the identical fossils discovered at Chartham are now pre- 

 served in the British Museum. They are noticed by 

 Nehemiah Grew in his ' Catalogue of the Rarities of 

 Gresham College,' p. 254 ; and were doubtless transferred 

 to their present depository along with the other objects 

 contained in the ancient Museum of the Royal Society. 



The annexed cut (fig. 122) is an original figure of the 

 best preserved of the molar teeth from Chartham : it is 



Fy. 122. 



Upper molar tooth of Rhinoceros ticliorhinus, Newer Pliocene, Chartham, Kent. 



the fifth or sixth molar of the right side. It well exem- 

 plifies the close analogy of the molars of the Rhinoceros 

 to those of the Palseotherium (see fig. 110). We per- 

 ceive the same cubical form of the crown ; the grinding 



