LARGE FOSSIL HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



399 



PACHYDERM ATA. 



HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



Fig. 159. 



Lower jaw of Hippotamus major, ^ nat. size. Fresh- water clay-beds, Cromer, 



Norfolk. 



LARGE FOSSIL HIPPOPOTAMUS. Hippopotamus 



Major. 



Grand Hippapotame Fossile, CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 1821, torn. L 



p. 310, pi. i. vi. 



Hippopotamus, 



Hippopotamus major, 



PARKINSON, Organic Remains, 4to., 1811, vol. 



iii. p. 374, pi. xxi. fig. 1 . 

 TRIMMER, Philosophical Transactions, 1813, p. 



131, pi. ix. figs. 1 and 3,* pi. x. 

 BUCKLAND, Reliquiae Diluvianae, pp. 18, 42, 176, 



pi. vii.figs. 8, 9, 10. 

 OWEN, Report of British Association, 1 843, p. 



223. 



IN glancing retrospectively towards the dawn of the 

 scientific investigation of Fossil Remains, one is struck with 

 the early introduction of the idea that the Hippopotamus 

 had contributed to those found in the temperate latitudes 

 of Europe : this amphibious quadruped seems, in fact, 



* Fig. 2. pi. ix. is the upper molar of a Rhinoceros, but I am unable, from the 

 position in which it is figured, to determine the species. 



