1865.] LARTflX OVIBOS MOSCHATTTS. 475 



Bromley, Kent, in the valley of a small affluent of the Thames ; and 

 also two other skulls, male and female, discovered in the drift of the 

 Avon, near Bath Easton, by Mr. Charles Moore*. 



In the same page of the ' Antiquity of Man ' Sir Charles Lyell 

 further mentions a skull of Ovibos moschatus preserved in the Mu- 

 seum of Berlin, and which Mr. Quenstedt had determined in the year 

 1836 ; but I have failed, even with the indications given by Sir 

 Charles Lyell, to find the description of this skull. 



In 1859 Professor Hebert communicated to me a molar tooth 

 found by the Abbe Lambert in the diluvium of the Oise at Yiry- 

 NoureuU, near Chauny ( Aisne), in association with remains of Elephas 

 antiquus and E. primigenius, Rhinoceros ticJiorhinus, Hycena, a 

 small Bear, Eeindeer, &c. This tooth I ascertained to be a molar 

 of Ovibos moschatus. 



In 1863 Professor E. E. Schmid, of the University of Jena, de- 

 scribed, under the name of Bos Pallasii (De Kay.), a portion of skull 

 of the same species discovered in 1862 in the ancient alluvium of the 

 SaaleJ. 



In 1864 Dr. Eugene Robert sent me a very fine piece of the skull 

 of Ovibos moschatus, discovered by him in the diluvium of the Oise 

 at Pi^ecy, near Creil (Oise), in the same spot where he had collected 

 the remains of an Elephant's tusk. I announced this discovery to the 

 Academy of Sciences at its sitting on the 27th of June, and I ad- 

 dressed to the Geological Society of London an extract from my com- 

 munication, with a plate, in which were figured this skull and the 

 molar teeth found at Yiry by the Abbe Lambert§. 



Further researches at one of our stations in the Gorge d'Enfer 

 (Dordogne) have produced a hoof phalange exactly identical, both in 

 form and dimensions, with the corresponding bone of the existing 

 Ovibos moschatus (Bos moschatus, auet.). It was found, in association 

 with remains of the Great Cave Bear ( Ursus sjpelceus), Lion (Felis 

 speZcea),Wolf, Reindeer, and Aurochs ||. 



It is to be noted that in the three localities where the bones of 

 Ovibos moschatus have been observed in France, there have been also 

 gathered the products of human industry. 



At Viry-Noureuil worked flints were found by I'Abbe Lambert, 

 of which two specimens were sent to London. At Precy was found, 

 in 1860, an axe of the St. Acheul type, which was presented to the 

 Geological Society of France by M. de Yerneuil at its sitting of the 

 21st of May, 1860, and of which Sir Charles Lyell makes mention 

 in pp. 152 and 153 of the ' Antiquity of Man.' 



At the Gorge d'Enfer worked flints have also been found, as weU 

 as Reindeer-horn unbarbed lance-heads of a type difi'ering fi-om 



* ' Antiquity of Man,' 3rd ed. p. 156. 



t Ann. des. Sc. Nat. 8vo. 4ieme serie. Zool. vol. xv. p. 224. 



j Leonhard and Bronn's Neues Jahrbuch, 1863, p. 541. 



§ Comptes rendus de I'Acad. des Sci. Seance 27 Juin 1864. 



II Since this paper was communicated to the Geological Society, the author 

 has discovered among the fossil remains of the same station ui the Gorge d'Enfer, 

 seven new bones of a hind leg and foot of Ovibos moschatus ; the long and 

 marrowed bones being split and broken like those of the other herbivora used 

 for food by the aucicut indigenous tribes of Perigord. 



