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MR. A. SMITH WOODWARD ON THE 



[Nov. 4, 



innumerable fossil bones disinterred from almost all caverns and 

 valley deposits where excavations have been made. So long ago as 

 1757, it is true. Dr. J. Collet incidentally mentioned the discovery 



Frontlet and bom-cores of Saiga tatarica, cJ. Half uut. size. 



of the horns of an antelope near Newbury, in Berkshire ^ ; and some 

 have supposed that the Saiga may possibly be the species in question. 

 But the fossil on which the determination was based was never 

 described, while it is now unknown ; and there is thus considerable 

 doubt as to whether it was not merely a fragment of the common 

 goat -. 



A recent discovery by Dr. J. K. Leeson, of Twickenham, in the 

 Pleistocene deposits of that neighbourhood, at last affords some 



' Phil. Trans. 17.57, p. 112. 



- E. T. Newton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xl. (1884), p. 290. 



