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  QUARTERLY 
  JOUKta"*^ 
  

  

  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  OF 
  LONDON. 
  

  

  Vol. 
  XXX. 
  

  

  1. 
  Description 
  of 
  the 
  Skull 
  of 
  a 
  Species 
  of 
  Halitherium 
  (H. 
  Ca.it- 
  

   hami) 
  from 
  the 
  Red 
  Crag 
  of 
  Suffolk. 
  By 
  William 
  Henry 
  

   Flower, 
  Esq., 
  F.R.S., 
  F.G.S., 
  &c, 
  Hunterian 
  Professor 
  of 
  Compa- 
  

   rative 
  Anatomy, 
  and 
  Conservator 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  

   College 
  of 
  Surgeons 
  of 
  England. 
  (Eead 
  November 
  5, 
  1 
  873.) 
  

  

  [Plate 
  I.] 
  

  

  "While 
  looking, 
  a 
  few 
  weeks 
  ago, 
  over 
  the 
  very 
  rich 
  collection 
  of 
  

   Crag 
  fossils 
  formed 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  H. 
  Canham, 
  of 
  Waldringfield, 
  near 
  

   Woodbridge, 
  that 
  gentleman 
  called 
  my 
  attention 
  to 
  an 
  unusually 
  fine 
  

   fragment 
  of 
  a 
  skull, 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  identify 
  with 
  any 
  

   known 
  form. 
  He 
  very 
  obligingly 
  allowed 
  me 
  to 
  bring 
  it 
  to 
  London 
  

   for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  careful 
  examination 
  and 
  comparison 
  ; 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  

   the 
  pleasure 
  of 
  exhibiting 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  this 
  evening. 
  

  

  The 
  specimen 
  was 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  so-called 
  " 
  coprolite 
  " 
  or 
  bone- 
  

   bed 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  Red 
  Crag 
  at 
  Foxhall, 
  about 
  two 
  miles 
  from 
  

   Waldringfield 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  presents 
  the 
  usual 
  aspect 
  of 
  the 
  mammalian 
  

   remains 
  from 
  that 
  bed. 
  It 
  is 
  heavily 
  mineralized, 
  of 
  a 
  rich 
  dark 
  

   brown 
  colour, 
  almost 
  black 
  in 
  some 
  parts, 
  with 
  the 
  surface 
  mucb 
  

   worn 
  and 
  polished, 
  and 
  marked 
  here 
  and 
  there 
  with 
  the 
  characteristic 
  

   round 
  or 
  oval 
  shallow 
  pits, 
  the 
  supposed 
  P/jo?as-borings. 
  Unfortu- 
  

   nately, 
  before 
  it 
  was 
  extracted 
  from 
  the 
  matrix 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  lay, 
  it 
  

   was 
  broken 
  by 
  the 
  pick 
  into 
  several 
  pieces, 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  lost 
  

   by 
  the 
  workmen 
  ; 
  but 
  all 
  that 
  were 
  preserved 
  have 
  been 
  skilfully 
  

   reunited 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Canham. 
  

  

  The 
  great 
  interest 
  of 
  this 
  skull 
  consists 
  in 
  its 
  affording 
  the 
  first 
  

   recorded 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  existence 
  of 
  an 
  animal 
  of 
  the 
  remark- 
  

   able 
  order 
  Sirenia 
  in 
  this 
  country. 
  

  

  The 
  fragment 
  consists 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  or 
  facial 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   cranium, 
  which 
  has 
  separated, 
  probably 
  before 
  fossilization, 
  from 
  the 
  

  

  Q. 
  J. 
  G.' 
  S. 
  No. 
  117. 
  b 
  

  

  