400 Note on Rhinoceros leptorhinus, Owen. 



"4. BMnoceros antiquitatis (B. tichorliinus) . This species had a 

 complete bony nasal septum. It is found in the newer Pliocene 

 deposits of Kent, Surrey, and Essex, and associated with Elephas 

 priviigenius in cavei'ns of the same date. 



" Elephas antiquus with BMnoceros hemitoecTius, and Eleplias primi- 

 genius with BMnoceros antiquitatis, though respectively characterizing 

 the earlier and later portions of our period, were probably contem- 

 porary animals ; and they certainly were companions of the cave- 

 bears, cave-lions, and cave-hysenas, and of some at least of the existing 

 mammalia, 



"There can be no reasonable objection to the name BMnoceros 

 antiquitatis. South of the Ehine, that is, in Geneva, France, and 

 Italy, all modern paleontologists call the species B. ticliorMnus ; but, 

 north of the Ehine, in Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, and Kussia, 

 the most eminent authorities designate it BMnoceros antiquitatis. 



"A name in science ought not to be a disputed point of mere 

 geographical predilection. 



" Blurnenbach named it first BMnoceros antiquitatis. Fischer de 

 Waldheim, a paleeontologist of no great authority, changed the name 

 into BMnoceros ticliorMnus, and Cuvier adopted Fischer's name with- 

 out acknowledgment. Desmarest called it BMnoceros Pallasii. 

 Blumenbach's names of Elephas primigenius and Mastodon Ohioticus 

 are now accepted by every one ; and there is no reason why his 

 BMnoceros antiquitatis should be rejected for a more modern name. 



" Living neither north nor south of the Ehine, I have no geographi- 

 cal predilections, and as an impartial foreigner I accept the earliest 

 name, viz. Blumenbach's; besides, the name BMnoceros tichorhinus is 

 faulty, inasmuch as three species had a nasal septum." 



We make no apology for the length of the foregoing quotation, as 

 it contains most valuable information as to the division and distribu- 

 tion of the fossil species of Ehinoceros in Europe, and has never 

 appeared in any other of Falconer's works, save in his Memoirs, for 

 which we are so greatly indebted to Dr. Murchison. 



No better introduction could possibly have been found for the 

 purpose of calling attention to the remarkably fine skull and lower 

 jaw^ of BMnoceros leptorMnus, Owen (BMnoceros hemitoechus. Falconer), 

 obtained from the Uphall Brickpit in the vicinity of llford,^ and 

 probably the most perfect of this species which has hitherto been 

 found in England (see Plate XV.). 



It forms a part of the magnificent collection of Pleistocene 

 Mammalian remains from this particular locality in the ancient 

 Valley of the Thames, collected with so much care by Sir Antonio 

 Brady, F.G.S., and for the preservation of which he and the public" 

 are so largely indebted to the indomitable perseverance, energy, 



1 Found disassociated, but clearly referable to the same species, though possibly not 

 to the same iniliviilual. 



2 See the accompanying sketch of the geology of the neighbourhood of Ilford, ante 

 p. 390. 



3 This fine collection of Tertiary Mammalian Remains has since become the property 

 of the Nation. 



