XXX. 



ON THE DOMESTIC PIG OF PEEHISTOKIC 

 TIMES IN BRITAIN, 



AND ON THE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THIS VARIETY OF PIG AND ' SUS 

 SCROFA FERUS/ 'SUS CRISTATUS,' 'SUS ANDAMANENSIS/ AND 



Portions of two skeletons of domestic pigs having been put 

 into my hands by the Rev. WiUiam Greenwell, F.S.A., from an 

 interment of the so-called late Celtic period, i.e. of the ultimate or 

 penultimate century before the Roman conquest of this country, 

 I determined to compare them with such other specimens of Suidae 

 as might by any possibility be genetically connected with them. 

 Among these other specimens I may mention, first, several speci- 

 mens of the wild boar, Sus scrofa, var. ferus, from the alluvial 

 deposits of this neighbourhood, and now in the Geological Series 

 of the Oxford Museum, under the charge of Professor Prestwich, 

 F.R.S. ; secondly, five specimens of the Indian wild hog, Sus 

 cristatus, kindly lent me by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I., F.L.S. ; 

 thirdly, two skulls of Sus andamanensis, presented to the Oxford 

 University Museum by my friend Prof. J. Wood-Mason, of the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta ; and fourthly, four skulls of Sus harhatus 

 from Borneo. The extensive series of skulls of Suidae contained 

 in the British Museum, those in the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 London, and the specimens of wild- and domestic-swine skulls con- 

 tained in our own collection were also used for this comparison. 



It may be well at the outset to specify the several points of wide 

 and general interest upon which such an enquiry as the ensuing 

 may be brought to bear. First among these I would mention its 

 bearings upon the now so commonly discussed questions relating to 

 the early migrations of our own species. The pig was one of the 



