334 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Museum in this city. His paper on this subject was subse- 

 quently expanded into an excellent memoir, entitled " Notes 

 on the Ancient Cattle of Scotland," and published in the 

 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.^ In 

 these Notes he has collected together the accounts of all the 

 specimens both of Bos longifrons and Bos primigenius which 

 had up to that time been found in Scotland, and he has given 

 a description of the crania of this animal in the Museums 

 of Antiquities, the Free Church College, the Eoyal College 

 of Surgeons, and the Veterinary College in this city. 



During the years 1883 and 1884, whilst the North British 

 Eailway Company was engaged in excavations connected 

 with the formation of a new dock and a new gas-holding 

 tank at Silloth, remains of Bos primigenius, the red deer 

 {Gervus elaplius), and bones of cetacea were discovered. I 

 first heard of this "find" in 1883 through the courtesy of 

 my friend Dr Leitch of Silloth, by whom the remains 

 were sent to me for identification, and through his kind 

 offices I have obtained information respecting the conditions 

 under which they were found.^ I am also indebted for 

 important information as to the deposits in which they 

 were imbedded to Charles Boyd, Esq., the resident engineer, 

 and to J. T. Middleton, Esq., the contractor. By per- 

 mission of these gentlemen and of Sir James Ealshaw, the 

 chairman of directors of the North British Eailway Company, 

 I have been able to secure several of the specimens for the 

 Anatomical Museum of the University. 



The following specimens were obtained during the dock 

 excavations : — A portion of a skull of Bos primigenius, the 

 right half of the lower jaw, the left humerus, the right tibia 

 and the right metatarsal bone of the same animal; two 

 antlers and the humerus of Cervus elaphus, and two vertebrae 

 of cetaceans. Mr Boyd writes to me that these specimens 

 were all found within a short distance from each other near 



^ Proc. Scot. Soc, Antiq., vol. ix., p. 587, 1873. 



2 Subsequently to this paper being read to the Society, Dr Leitch sent me 

 a copy of the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Association 

 for the Advancement of Literature and Science, No. IX., 1885, in which 

 he had described the locality and figured some of the bones. 



