On a nearly complete Skeleton of the Bos Primigenius 
found in Burwell Fen. By Mr J. W. Cuark. 
Mr J. W. Crark exhibited and made some remarks upon 
a skeleton of the great extinct Ox (Bos primigenius). The 
bones had been found together in Burwell Fen early in the 
spring of 1874; and there could be no doubt that they be- 
longed to the same animal. The parts wanting are the right 
hind-leg, one lumbar vertebra, a few terminal vertebrae of 
the tail, and a few bones of the carpus, tarsus and toes. The 
skeleton, after the bones had been properly treated with 
gelatine, had been mounted and placed in the Museum of 
Comparative Anatomy. It is the first skeleton found in 
England in a sufficiently perfect state to allow of its being 
articulated. Mr Clark briefly recapitulated the history of 
the species, shewing, from the passages out of chronicles and 
other contemporary records collected by Mr Boyd Dawkins, 
that it had subsisted in a living state on the continent of 
Europe down to a much later date than had been supposed 
previous to his researches. 
November 2, 1874. 
Tux PRESIDENT (PROFESSOR BABINGTON) in the Chair. 
On some further Observations with a Prism-circle. 
By Mr Pearson. 
This paper was intended as a sequel to one read on May 25th, 
the two being intended to establish by practical examples the 
facility with which a traveller may establish his latitude and 
longitude in any part of the globe. 
