1836.] 



Fossil Remains of the Dddupur Collection. 



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the first column by those obtained from the head of a wild boar 

 killed in the neighbourhood of Hansi. These two skulls denote, by 

 the state of their molar teeth, very similar ages, the existing being 

 but little younger than the fossil species ; they are therefore well 

 adapted for a comparison. 



Space occupied by seven molars measured on mesial 

 lines, 



From lower edge of foramen magnum to extremity 

 of intermaxillary, 



Fpace between the 9tb molars at their anterior, .... 



Ditto ditto 1st ditto, 



Distance from 1st molars to extremity of inter- 

 maxillary, 



Ditto from lower edge of occipital foramen to pos- 

 terior edge of 7th molars, 



Ditto from summit of occiput to extremity of inter- 

 maxillary, 



Breadth of frontal plane at post, orbitary apophysis, 



Ditto of parietal plane at narrowest part, 



Greatest breadth across zygomatic process of tem- 

 poral bones, 



From anterior of orbit to extremity of intermaxillary, 



From anterior of orbit to point of post, orbitary 

 apophysis, 



Diameter of orbit perpendicularly to line of molar, 



From point of post, orbitary apophysis to lower edge 

 of jugal, 



Height of occiput from lower edge of occipital fora- 

 men to summit, 



Breadth across occipital condyles, 



Fossil 



Existing 

 species. 



species, 

 Female. 



species, 

 Male. 



1,000 



1,000 



1,000 



2,672 

 0,210 

 0,371 



2,586 

 0,193 

 0,356 



0,257 

 0,418 



0,858 



0,680 



•• 



0,825 



0,922 



•• 



3,267 



0,876 

 0,358 



2,940 

 0,831 

 0,241 



0,928 

 0,301 



1,323 



2,079 



1,280 

 1,934 



. . 



0,362 

 0,365 



0,317 

 0,280 



0,290 



0,562 



0,553 



•• 



1,073 

 0,487 



0,893 

 0,449 



•• 



Fossil 



Having only one specimen of the existing species, we shall draw no 

 conclusions from the difference of size observable in the two species, 

 as shown by the table of dimensions which closes this paper ; but, 

 confining ourselves to the discordances displayed by the above table, 

 in which the length of space occupied by the seven molars is chosen 

 as the unit of comparison, shall notice the following circumstances. 



The molars with reference to the length of the head as measured 

 from the foramen magnum to the extremity of the intermaxillaries, 

 occupy more space, and are situated at a greater distance from the 

 foramen magnum ; there is, consequently, a less interval between the 

 anterior false molar and the extremity of the intermaxillaries in the 

 fossil than in the existing species : the palate is also somewhat 

 narrower. 



The mesial line of the occiput is in the fossil nearly perpendicular 

 to the plane of the palate, agreeing in this respect with the cranium 

 of the hog which forms the subject of Cuvier's description : but in 

 the wild hog of Haridnah this mesial line makes an obtuse angle 

 with the palatal plane ; thus causing the dimension from the crest of 



