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the "woolly rhinoceros/' because its mummified remains, 

 which are discovered in the frozen tundras of Siberia, prove 

 that the skin was covered with wool and long hair. It 

 possessed two horns, of which the foremost was so large 

 that the usually gristly partition between the right and left 

 halves of the nose-cavity became bony for a support, and 

 this is always conspicuous in well-preserved skulls. The 

 actual horns (which are never bony in rhinoceroses, but 



Pier-oases 

 6-8. 



Table-ease 

 4. 



Fig. 9. — Skeleton of Pore foot of three existing Perissodactyl or Uneven- 

 toed TTngulata — namely, Tapir (A), Ehinoeeros (B), and Horse (C), 

 much reduced in size. R, radius ; U, ulna ; c, cuneiform ; I, lunar ; 

 s, scaphoid ; u, unciform ; m, magnum ; td, trapezoid ; tm, trapezium ; 

 II, in, iv, v, the several digits. (Prom Flower's "Osteology of the 

 Mammalia.") 



merely hardened clusters of hair) are only preserved in the 

 frozen earth of the Arctic Circle. A small example is 

 exhibited with some skulls in Pier-case 6. The bones and 

 teeth of the woolly rhinoceros are common in British 

 Pleistocene deposits and on the bed of the North Sea ; and 

 fine specimens are shown in Pier-case 6 and Table-case 4. 

 Some fragmentary remains from Chartham in Kent, are 

 especially interesting as being among the earliest discoveries 

 of fossil bones in England to attract notice. They were 



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