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DR. C. W. ANDREWS ON 



[Jan. 17, 



8. Note on some recently discovered Remains o£ the Miisk- 

 Ox {Ovibos nioscJuctus Zimmermann, sp.) from the 

 Pleistocene Beds of Southern England. By C. W. 

 Andeews, D.Sc, F.Z.S. (British Museum, Natural 

 History) . 



[Received January 9, 1905.] 



(Text figures 13 & 14.) 



Since 1855, the date of the discovery by Lord Avebury and the 

 Rev. Charles Kingsley of a skidl of the Musk-Ox in the low-level 

 gravels of the Thames at Maidenhead, only some half-a-dozen 

 instances of the occurrence of remains of this animal in Bi'itain 

 have been recorded. Details of these finds aie given by Pi'of. 

 Boyd Dawkins in the Memoir on the Pleistocene Mammals of 

 Britain, Pt. V., published by the Palfeontographical Society*. 

 Remains of this animal being so rare, no apology will be needed 

 for drawing attention to two recent discoveries of further evidence 

 of its former existence in this country. The first of these was 

 made in 1902 by the Rev. B. Hale Woitham, who found in the 

 Brick Earths of the Thames at Plumstead an axis vertebra, pait 

 of a right femin", and the shaft of a radius, which were presented 

 to the British Museum, where they were determined by Dr. 

 A. Smith Woodward as belonging to this species. 



The axis (text-fig. 13) has been compared with that of a large 



Text-fig. 13. 



Axis vertebra of Musk Ox, from Brick-earths of the Thames at Phimstead. 



male Musk-Ox from North America, and has been found to difier 

 from it in size and in some details of structure. It is considerably 



* Mou. Palreont. Soc. 1872. 



