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from the Cavern, with a cast of one of the canines in question, 

 accompanied by a descriptive letter, in which were enclosed a copy 

 of a letter from the Baron Cuvier and of part of a letter from Dr. 

 Buckland. 



These documents are all preserved at York, and, through the kind- 

 ness of the Eev, J. Kenrick, I have been courteously permitted to 

 copy them, with a view to publication. At present, however, it is 

 not necessary to trouble you with anything more than the following : 



" Extract from Dr. Buckland's letter to Eev. J. MacEnery respecting 

 the serrated tooth, of which a cast is enclosed in the Collection : — 



''Lyons, 14: March, 1826. 



" My dear Sir, — I should have forwarded the enclosed from Paris 

 had I not waited to visit a spot in Auvergne, where they have 

 recently discovered a deposit of animals exactly similar to those of 

 Kent's Cave in a bed of Diluvial sand and gravel. 



" The resemblance is still more striking from the fact of there 

 being among them the teeth of your unknown animal,^ which turns 

 out to be the JJrsus cultridens of Cuvier, which had, till now, been 

 found only in the Val d'Arno. There is an entire skull of this bear 

 in the Collection at Florence. 



" I think it is more satisfactory to have this analogy established 

 than to have discovered a neio species at Torquay. 



" M. Cuvier was much pleased with the identity of the teeth. . . ." 



Allow me, in conclusion, to recapitulate briefly the points that 

 appear to be now established respecting the Kent's Hole Machai- 

 rodus : — 



In January, 1826, Mr. MacEnery found, mixed with the remains 

 of the ordinary Cave Mammals, five canines, and subsequently one 

 incisor, of Machairodus latidens {=:Ursus cultridens), in that part 

 of the Cavern which he named the Wolfs Den. Sir W. C 

 Trevelyan saw all the specimens at Torquay in the following month. 

 Casts of the canines were taken to Paris, and submitted to M. 

 Cuvier by Dr. Buckland, who, writing from Lyons on March 14th, 

 informed Mr. MacEnery that M. Cuvier had identified them as the 

 teeth of JJrsus cidtridens. 



Finally, the canines have been thus distributed : One is in the 

 British Museum, ; one in the Museum of the Geological Society of 

 London ; one in the Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, 

 London ; one in the Oxford Museum ; and one in the private collec- 

 tion of Sir W. C. Trevelyan. 



Wm. Pengellt. 

 Torquay, December 10th, 1870. 



1 It is, perhaps, notewortliy that, in the brief contents of Kent's Cavern, written 

 before his letter from Lyons, Dr. Buckland mentioned the remains of rhinoceros, 

 elephant, horse, elk, deer, ox, hysena, bear, tiger, wolf, fox, " and of an unknown 

 carnivorous animal, at least as large as a tiger, the genus of which has not yet been 

 determined." (See Edin. Phil. Journ., vol. xiv., pp. 366-64, 1826). This great 

 unknown was, no doubt, Machairodus. 



