MAMMALIA. 



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the " woolly rhinoceros," because its niummified remains, Pier-cases 



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which are discovered in the frozen tundras of Siberia, prove q,g^i,iQ.cQ^gQ 



that the skin was covered with wool and long hair. It 4. 



possessed two horns, of which the foremost was so large 



that the usually gristly partition between the right and left 



halves of the nose-cavity became bony for a support, and 



this is always conspicuous in well-preserved skulls. The 



actual horns (which are never bony in rhinoceroses, but 



Yia. y. — Skeleton of Fore foot of three existing Perissodactyl or Uneven- 

 toed Ungulata — namely, Tapir (A), Rhinoceros (B), and Horse (C), 

 much reduced in size. R, radius ; U, ulna ; c, cuneiform ; I, lunar ; 

 s, scaphoid ; u, unciform ; m, magnum ; td, trapezoid ; tm, trapezium ; 

 II, III, IV, V, the several digits. (From Flower's " Osteology of the 

 Mammalia.") 



merely hardened clusters of hair) are preserved in the 

 frozen earth of the Arctic Circle, and a small example is 

 exhibited with some skulls in Pier-case 6. The bones and 

 teeth of the woolly rhinoceros are common in Britisli 

 Pleistocene deposits and on the Ijed of the North Sea ; and 

 tine specimens are shown in Pier-case 6 and Table-case 4. 

 Some fragmentary remains from Chartham, in Kent, are 

 especially interesting as being among the earliest discoveries 

 of fossil bones in England to attract notice. They were 



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