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XVII. — Note on Remains of Rhinoceros Leptorhinus in the Museum 



OF Le PuY, AUVERGNE. 

 Sept. 15, 1863. 



Examined a fine specimen of left side of lower jaw of R. megarhinus 

 from Solilhac (said by M. Robert to have been found along with the 

 bones of the skeleton which I have attributed to R. Etruscus !). It has 

 the six molars en suite, the last but little worn. The outer side of the 

 angle has the deep rugosities exhibited by Gervais' figure. Length of 

 four last molars, 6'5 in. 



In the same Museum there is also a magnificent palate series of R. 

 megarhinus {JMerckii pattern), according to M. Robert, found in ' des 

 fentes a ossements eruptives du collet Polignac' It contains the six last 

 molars on both sides, all a little worn. Length of six molars, 1 1 inches. 



The teeth are very finely preserved, and exactly like the large Grays 

 Thurrock specimen in the British Museum ; they are very fresh and 

 modern looking. 



IV. NOTES ON RHINOCEROS ANTIQUITATIS (Blumb.) R. 

 TICHORHINUS (Fisch. and Cuv.). 



I. — Rhinoceros Antiquitatis from Wookey Hole, Taunton, and 



Uphill Cavern. 

 Taunton Museum, April 13, 1858, and Bristol, May 1858. 



Examined upper and lower molars of R. tichorhinus from Wookey 

 Hole, a lately discovered cave in the Mendip Hills. From the same 

 cave there are molars of E. primigenius, a magnificent canine of the 

 Cave Lion, remains of Hyaena, &c. 



In the same Museum there is a skull of a R. tichorhinus, three-fourths 

 grown, found in digging the foimdation of the jail. It contains on either 

 side the five posterior teeth, the penultimate and last in germ, and the 

 last not fully emerged from the alveolus. There are also numerous 

 detached teeth of the same species. 



In the Bristol Museum are two lower molars of R. tichorhinus from 

 Uphill Cavern, very pronounced by their rugosity. 1 



II. — Comparison of Mr. Botd Dawkins's Specimens of Rhinoceros 

 Molars from Wookey Hole. 

 March 25, 1862. 2 

 They consist of two milk molars, probably from the dimensions 

 penultimates (m.m. 3) of the upper jaw, the one (10 D) of the left 

 side, the other (10 A) of the right; 10 A is considerably more 

 advanced in wear than the other. There are three insulated valleys ; 

 first, there is a fissure formed by the great transverse valley, the open- 

 ing of which is blocked up by a much higher step than in the same 

 teeth of R. hemitcechus, in this respect agreeing with R. tichorhinus. 

 There is no basal bourrelet at the inside, but in this case a small and 



1 Dr. Falconer also identified speci- 

 mens of B. hemita>chus from Wookey 

 Hole. In a letter to Col. Wood, dated 

 July 8, 1862, he -wrote : 'Mr. Dawkins 

 lately got veritable B. hcmitoechus from 



Wookey Hole.'— [Ed.] 



2 In the same year Dr. Falconer iden- 

 tified remains of B. tichorhinus in col- 

 lections from Kent's Hole at Torquay. — 

 [Ed.] 



