PREHISTORIC TIMES IN BRITAIN. 549 



as to the striping of the young of the nearly allied S. verrucosus 

 directly contradictory of the statement of Miiller and Schlegel 

 given above, p. 540. 



List of Sources of Information on ' Suidae ' made available 

 TO MB since July, 1876. 



I. A skull of S. celebensis ?, kindly lent me by Dr. A. B. Meyer, Director of the 

 Royal Zoological Museum at Dresden. 

 II. A skull of a Sus, sp. ?, ?, from Ternate ; also lent me by Dr. A. B. Meyer. 



III. Two skulls of the domestic pig of Bengal (S. cristatus, var. domesticus), pre- 



sented to the Oxford University Museum by E. Lockwood, Esq., Monghyr, 

 Bengal. 



IV. Two skulls of S. scrofa, var. ferus, presented by Dr. Fiedler, of Dresden. 



V. A skull of aS^. scrofa, var. ferus, presented by M. le Marquis de I'Aigle, 

 Chateau de Compifegne, Pise, France, 

 VI. A skull of S. scrofa, var. domesticus, from Stene i Bo, Lofoten Islands, 2° 

 above Arctic Circle ; presented by H. N. Moseley, Esq., Fellow of Exeter 

 College, Oxford. 

 Vll. Two bronze statuettes of S. scrofa, var. ferus, from the Gallo-Roman period in 

 France ; presented by John Evans, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Vlll. A Memoir by Professor L. Rutimeyer, ' Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss des 

 Torfschweins,' in the ' Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft 

 in Basel,' iv. i, 1864, pp. 132-186. 

 IX. The Inaugural Dissertation ' Zur Kenntniss des Torfschweins,' by Johann 

 Wilhehn Schutz, Berlin, May 4, 1868, referred to by Mr. Darwin in 

 * Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. i. p. 71, 2nd ed., 1875. 

 X. A Memoir by Professor R. Hartmann, 'Verbreitung der in nordostlichen 

 Afrika wild lebenden Saugethiere,' in the Berlin 'Zeitschrift fiir Erd- 

 kunde,' Bd. iii. 1868, in which (at pp. 349-352) there is an account of 

 S. sennaariensis, which the Professor and Dr. Schutz consider to be the 

 parent stock of S. scrofa, var. palustris. 

 XI. Letter from Dr. A. B. Meyer, of the Royal Zoological Museum, Dresden. 

 XII. Letter from Professor R. Hartmann, of Berlin. 



XIII. Letter from Professor Fitzinger, of Vienna. 



XIV. Letter and drawing from Professor Busk, of London. 



XV. Letter from the Rev. C. Spencer Bubb, late Missionary in Borneo. 

 XVI. Letter from G. Dobson, Esq., B.A., M.B., F.L.S. 



A comparison of the skull of the old male of S. celebe?ms lent me 

 by Dr. A. B. Meyer, and the measurements of it given below, with 

 the skulls of S. andamatiensis and with the descriptions of the skull 

 of S. verrucosus given by Nathusius, Rutimeyer, and Miiller and 

 Schlegel, will show that while agreeing with these skulls in general 

 contour and proportions it is intermediate between them in actual 

 size. The highest point in the sagittal contour is, as in the 

 Suidae above named, a little way anterior to the upper edge of 



