344 RHINOCEROS. 



A fragment of the left tibia. 



Two portions of metatarsal bones of the right hind-foot. 

 The size and form of the teeth, and the thick and strong 

 proportions of the remains of the bones of the extremities, 

 indicate them to have belonged to an animal of the same 

 species as that still more entire specimen discovered in the 

 Derbyshire cavern. 



The state of the epiphyses of the long bones proves that 

 the animal had not quite reached maturity; but in the 

 same cavernous fissure, at Oreston, there was found part of 

 the right humerus of an older individual of the Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus. 



The broken bones have suffered from clean fractures ; 

 none of them are gnawed or waterworn : the cavern con- 

 taining them was fifteen feet wide, twelve feet high, forty- 

 five feet long ; it was filled with solid clay, in which the 

 bones were imbedded : they were situated about three feet 

 above the bottom of the cavern.* 



In similar and adjoining caverns (fig. 50, A and B) detached 

 bones and teeth of the same extinct species of Rhinoceros 

 were found ; they were associated in one of the fissures with 

 remains of a large species of Deer, and of the Ursus spelaus ; 

 in another with fossil bones of Equus, Bos, Cervus, Ursus, 

 Canis, Hyaena, and Fells speleea. None of the bones 

 exhibit marks of having been gnawed or broken by the 

 teeth of the great cave-haunting Carnivora ; but both these 



* Philosophical Transactions, 1817, p. 176 : the specimens are now preserved 



in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. One of the bones 

 was analyzed by Mr. Brande, who found it to consist of 



Phosphate of lime . . . . 60 



Carbonate of Lime . . . . .28 



Animal matter ..... 2 



Water and loss . . . . .10 



100 



