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RHINOCEROS. 



be susceptible of being embraced within tbe scope of a single 

 communication ; and tbe remarks wbicb follow the descriptive 

 details forming tbe special subject of tbis essay will be con- 

 fined to tbe association, in some of tbe ossiferous caverns in 

 England, of tbe remains of certain of tbe fossil mammalia, 

 wbicb I regard as positive indicators of tbe age of Pliocene 

 deposits, witbout reference to tbe altered physical conditions 

 of tbe caves at different periods, or to tbe agencies by wbicb 

 tbe remains were introduced witbin tbem. 1 



I may premise tbat my inquiries bave embraced an exami- 

 nation, more or less detailed, of collections from tbe follow- 

 ing caverns : — Kent's Hole, Oreston, and otber South Devon- 

 shire caves ; Banwell, Bleadon, Hutton, Berrington, &c, in 

 the Mendip Hills; Paviland, Spritsail Tor, Minchin Hole, 

 Bacon's Hole, and Bosco's Den, in the peninsula of Gower, 

 in South Wales ; Cefn, in North Wales ; Kirkdale and 

 Wirksworth. The museums which have been visited in 

 search of materials are the British Museum and those of the 

 College of Surgeons and Geological Society, in the metro- 

 polis ; and in the provinces, Oxford, for Dr. Buckland's very 

 extensive and classical series of cave-remains from British 

 and foreign localities; Bristol, for the interesting collection 

 from Durdhain Down, formed and described by Mr. Stutch- 

 bury; Taunton, for the collection amassed during many 

 years by the Rev. D. Williams, from Bleadon, Hutton, and 

 others of the Mendip Caverns ; Torquay and Plymouth, for 

 Kent's Hole and Oreston ; Swansea, for the Gower Cave col- 

 lections ; and York, for that from Kirkdale. I have further 

 had the advantage of examining the private cave-collections 

 of the veteran Mr. Wm. Beard, at Banwell, from the Mendip 

 caverns ; of Miss Talbot, at Penrice Castle, from Paviland ; 

 and, above all, the unrivalled collection formed at Stout Hall, 

 by my friend Colonel E. R. Wood, F.G.S., during the last 

 nine years, from the ossiferous caves of Gower. This last has 

 furnished more materials for the description of the extinct 

 Rhinoceros, which is the special subject of this paper, than 

 all the rest together. 



Rhinoceros hemitoechus. 2 — The species to which I have 

 assigned this name (for reasons which will more fully appear 

 in the sequel) is, avowedly, not a new accession, except by 

 name, to the Fossil Fauna of Britain. It has long been fami- 

 liar to geologists as the Rhinoceros leptorhinus of Cuvier, 

 according to Professor Owen, and described at great length 



1 This portion of the essay was never 

 written; but the subject will be found 

 treated in the author's paper, ' On the 

 Ossiferous Caves of Gower.' — [Ed.] 



2 From fifiKJvs, half, and ro?xos, parti- 

 tion, in reference to the partial nasal 

 septum, distinctive of the species. 



