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extended research, and the collection of a greater series of tables of 

 dimensions of the Indian rhinoceros, before anything absolutely con- 

 clusive can be pronounced with regard to the fossil and existing 

 species. 



We have had no hesitation in ascribing the two limbs dug up in 

 such close neighbourhood to the same animal. An additional confirma- 

 tion of the correctness of the assumplicm may be derived from the 

 proportion which exists between these two extremities, when compared 

 with that which occurs in the Indian rhinoceros. 



Ind. Rhin. femur and tibia 

 Fossil Ind. Eliin. do. do. 



mfet. 0'960 humerus and radius mfet. 0'868 

 „ 1-0.59 ditto ditto ,, 0-947 



In the first, the humerus and radius are to the femur and tibia in the 

 ratio of 1 : I'lO ; in the fossil, the ratio is 1 : 111. 



The analogy which exists between these fossil extremities and those 

 of the Indian rhinoceros being no less striking than that which was 

 observed between the cranium, PI. XV., and the skull of the existing 

 species, we have considered such con-espondence sufficient to prove 

 that the fossil anterior and posterior limbs appertained to an animal of 

 the same species, and of about similar size to the one of which the 

 cranium in question is a relic. 



Even in the event of a much closer approximation of symmetrical 

 proportions than that given in this paper being obtained, we are aware 

 that identity of species could not be presumed. It could not be 

 assumed that the skin and the external appearance of the animal were 

 precisely similar to those of the existing species. The fossil Indian 

 rhinoceros must, however, have presented a figure bearing a strong 

 general resemblance to the uncouth symmetry of its present repre- 

 sentative. 



