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covered the entire cranium of an adult Rhinoceros with the 

 series of molars complete on both sides, the nasal bones 

 perfect to their tips, and a well-pronounced partial bony 

 septum connecting the anterior portion of the nasals with 

 the floor of the nostrils. This most precious and unique spe- 

 cimen met with a grievous accident, by which it was crushed 

 and destroyed whilst temporarily out of Colonel Wood's hands ; 

 and all that now remains of it is the palate, with the line of 

 molars on either side, which is deposited in the Museum 

 of the College of Surgeons. I found in Colonel Wood's rich 

 collection at Stout Hall a very fine specimen comprising 

 the cerebral part of another cranium of the same species of 

 Rhinoceros, the facial portion of which appears to have been 

 broken and destroyed by the workmen during extrication 

 from the floor of the cavern. This fragment will be described 

 in the sequel. 1 



Colonel Wood, on being made aware of the important 

 nature of the result of his researches, immediately recom- 

 menced the operations, which had been temporarily sus- 

 pended, in ' Minchin Hole,' and discovered a large number 

 of additional remains of the same species. These I had an 

 opportunity of examining on a second visit to Gower during 

 last autumn, and the whole series has been liberally placed 

 at my disposal by Colonel Wood. 



My attention was next directed to ascertaining whether 

 the Grower form occurred in any other of the ossiferous caverns 

 in England ; and on proceeding to Bristol, I found in the 

 very interesting series of fossil remains, discovered by Mr. 

 Stutchbury, in Durdham Down, several upper molars speci- 

 fically identical with those of the Rhinoceros of Bacon Hole 

 and Minchin Hole. 2 The same result followed an exami- 

 nation of the Rhinoceros remains from ' Oreston,' near 

 Plymouth, described by Mr. Whidbey in 181 7, 3 and now 

 preserved in the Museum of the College of Surgeons. 4 They 

 all proved to belong to the same species. I next instituted 

 a comparison between the upper molars discovered by Mr. 

 John Brown, F.G.S., at Clacton and the Gower specimens, 

 with the same result. 5 



The materials available for the description of the species 

 are therefore very abundant, including specimens, more or 

 less complete, of at least four crania of different ages ; five 

 upper jaws presenting the molars in different stages of wear ; 

 eleven rami of the lower jaw, young and old ; together with 

 fragments of most of the principal bones of the extremities. 



1 See paper on the Gower Caves, and 

 also pp. 350 to 352— [Ed.] 



2 See Appendix, No. II., p. 349.— [Ed.] 



3 Philosoph. Trans., 1817. 



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See Appendix, No.IX.,p.353. — 

 5 See Appendix, No. V., p. 351.— 

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