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the Post-glacial brickearth of Otterham, near Sittingbourne, has furnished upper pre- 
molar 3 and a large upper sectorial to Mr. Hughes, F.G.S.; and a similar deposit near 
Hartlip, in the same neighbourhood, a femur to Mr. Bland! A very careful search 
throughout South Kent and the whole of Sussex has not revealed a trace of the former 
existence of the Lion in the heart of the dense Wealden Forest, that from the nature of 
the ground must have overshadowed those districts during the Post-glacial epoch. In 
going westward we meet with the animal again in the low-level river-deposits of Fisherton, 
im a lower jaw, found by Dr. Blackmore, and now in the Salisbury Museum. The low- 
level gravels also of Loxbrook, in the valley of the Avon, near Bath, have furnished a 
remarkably fine humerus (Pl. XVIII, fig. 2) to the energy of the Rev. H. H. Winwood, 
F.G.S. In the collection of the Right Hon. Earl of Enniskillen, at Florence Court, is a 
canine from the cave on Durdham Down, near Bristol, explored by Mr. Stutchbury. 
Remains of the leptorhine Rhinoceros of Owen and L/ippopotamus major from the same 
cave are preserved’in the Bristol Museum. 
But the district that, of all others, has furnished the most enormous quantity of the 
remains of the Cave Lion, and is entitled, therefore, to rank as its metropolis in Britain, 
is the western half of the Mendip range of hills in Somerset. Throughout the area 
extending from the ancient city of Wells westward to the new watering-place of Weston- 
super-Mare the Mountain-limestone is traversed by numerous caves that have afforded 
most valuable evidence as to the character of the ancient Post-glacial Fauna in the west 
of England to the Rev. D. Williams, Mr. Beard, and ourselves. Among the animals the 
Cave Lion stands out the most prominently. 
We found in Wookeyhole Hyzena-den twelve teeth (PI. XL, fig. 9; Pl. XII, figs. 9, 13, 15), 
an ulna (Pl. I, fig. 9), astragalus, and metacarpal (Pl. XX, fig. 7). Dr. Boyd also 
obtained a magnificent upper canine (PI, XI, fig. 6).° All the remains were more or less 
gnawed, and bore indisputable traces of the animals to which they belonged having fallen 
a prey to the Hyzenas. 
The Feline remains from Bleadon, Sandford Hill, and Hutton Caves, explored by 
Messrs. Williains and Beard, are preserved in the ‘l'aunton Museum, where they con- 
stitute, perhaps, the most magnificent series in the world. ‘They are as follows, in various 
conditions, some being perfect, others fragmentary. 
1 Both these are in the Museum of the Geological Society of London. 
2 In the Oxford and Taunton Museums, and in the collections of Mr. James Parker, Mr. Sanford, and 
Mr. Willett. 
