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PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS. 



CHAP. 



Gravel. Drift Clay, Peat, &c. 



Bear (Ursus arctos) .... Hurley Bottom P. 

 Dog or wolf, large speci- 1 Grayel near Oxford q _ f Cherwell valley, above 



men J I Magdalen College r . 



Cervus capreolus Marcham s . (Full size.) Stanlake*. (Young.) 



elaphus Wittenham, Oxford, &c. Near Oxford, Swindon, &c. 



tarandus Wittenham. (Young.) 



Strongylocerus spelaeus u Abingdon. 



Capra hircus Locality ? 



Bos primigenius Oxford, Abingdon, Thame,&c. Stowe Wood. 



longifrons Near Swindon, &c. 



taurus Near Oxford. 



Bison priscus Hurley Bottom. 



Hippopotamus major .... Wytham. 



Sus scrofa Wytham. Near Swindon, Oxford. 



Equus fossilis Oxford, Wytham, Culham, Above Magdalen College, 



&c. &c. 



Rhinoceros tichorhinus . . Wytham, Kidlington, Oxford. Near Wantage. 



Elephas antiquus Culham, Thame, Hurley, Above Magdalen Bridge. , 



Wytham. 



primigenius ....Ascott, Bourton, Yarnton, Lawford, near Rugby. 

 Oxford, Culham, Radley, 

 Moulsford, Thame, Hurley, 

 Cricklade, &c. 

 Castor fiber Newbury. 



This short Catalogue being compared with that furnished by 

 Mr. Dawkins for the Lower Brickearths of the Thames valley, 

 shews deficiencies of 



Felis spelaea F. catus. Megaceros hibernicus. 



Hyaena spelasa. Elephas priscus. 



Ursus ferox. Rhinoceros leptorhinus 

 Canis vulpes. R. megarhinus. 



Lutra vulgaris. Arvicola amphibia. 

 Ovibos moschatus. 



That the mammoth and rhinoceros lived on the borders of the 

 Thames valley will readily be admitted ; but that they were ever 

 seen there by human eyes is quite another matter. No reliquiae 

 of humanity have been discovered to accompany them in the deep 

 parts of the gravel where they mostly appear, as at Yarnton, 



P Dr. Buckland's collection. <i Presented by Professor J. E. T. Rogers, M.A. 



r Found in dredging to deepen the channel. s Dr. Buckland's collection. 



* ' From a depth of 5 feet in a bed of peat, lying beneath a stratum of gravel and 

 one of clay, the top soil being peat ; Stanlake, Oxon, 1851.' Presented by the 

 Executors of Mr. Stone. 



u Possibly a gigantic variety of Cervus elaphus. 



