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Norices oF GEOLOGICAL PAPERS READ BEFORE THE BRITISH 
ASSOCIATION—continued. 
Notice oF CarNAsstAL AND Cantne TEETH, FRoM THE Mernpre Cavers, wHICH 
PROBABLY BELONG To Hexis aw7iqua. By W. A. SANrorp, Esq., F.G.S. 
EARS a quantity of bones from Hutton Cavern, in the Men- 
dips, the author found a lower earnassial and an upper and a 
lower canine, of a large species of Felis, not Felis spelea. These pre- 
sented all the characteristics and measurements of Felis pardus, 
which is probably the same animal as that noticed and figured, 
though not described, by Cuvier under the name of Felis antiqua, 
though the figure differs in the size of the anterior lobe from that of 
the Mendip*fossils. The measurements, however, exactly agree. He 
has therefore enumerated Felis pardus (syn. F. antiqua, Cuvier) 
as a British cave-fossil. He also called attention to the value of the 
comparative measurements of the length of the tooth from front to 
back, with that of the height of the base of the tooth from the crown 
to the bottom of the furrow, in the lower carnassial, as a means of 
discrimination between the different groups of Felide; and of the 
fact that the transverse measurement is so variable in the same 
species and even in the same individual, that it is valueless for the 
same purpose. It is by the former comparison, as also by the 
considerably larger size, that this tooth is distinguished from the 
corresponding tooth of J. pardoides, of Owen, from the Red Crag. 
On THE Mamaia oF THE Newer Puiccenr AGE IN THE CAVERNS AND River- 
DEPOSITS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. By W. Boyp Dawxrns, B.A. (Oxon.), F.G.S., 
of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 
(PIHE author, after giving a brief summary of the results of the 
exploration of upwards of eleven ossiferous caverns in the 
limestone of the Mendip Hills, by the Rev. J. Williams, Messrs. 
Beard and Stutchbury, Mr. Ayshford Sanford, F.G.S., and himself, 
described in outline the Mammalia that have been found in the 
county, and are preserved in the Museums of Taunton, Bath, and 
Bristol, and in Mr. Sanford’s and his own cabinets. 
The Carnivora are very largly represented. Of the Felide, the 
Cave-tiger (Felis spetea), found alike in the caverns and gravels of 
the Avon, the Cave-panther (Felis antigua of Cuvier), identified as 
a British fossil for the first time by his friend Mr. Sanford, and a 
small feline species allied to the Wild Cat, remind us of the associa- 
tion of animals obtaining ow in the Altai Mountains. The Hyena 
(Hyena spelea, or Cave-hyena), found abundantly in two of the 
caves, presents those variations from the typical form of the lower 
true molar, which Messrs. Croizet and Jobert have ascribed to their 
H, Perrieri, and MM. De Serres, Dubreuil, and Jeanjean to their 
HH. intermedia. ‘The Bears are represented by two species at least— 
the Brown Bear of Europe, Ursus arctos, on the one hand, and the 
gigantic Cave-bear, U. speleus, on the other. Between these two 
extremes of size are many varieties, which may perhaps turn out 
to be species, but they await an historian. The Canid@ are found in 
every cavern, and comprise the Fox and Wolf. ‘The remains of 
