THE BEAR. 



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bones from the " refuse heaps" round Colchester 

 made by Dr. Bree, the remains of this animal were 

 found along with those of the Badger, Wolf, Celtic 

 Shorthorn, and Goat. Professor Boyd Dawkins has 

 also met with it in a similar " refuse heap" at Rich- 

 mond, in Yorkshire, which is most probably of 

 Roman origin. 



CRANIUM OP BROWN BEAR, DUMFRIESSHIRE. 



Dr. J. A. Smith has described and figured* the 

 skull of a large Bear which was found with a rib of 

 the same animal in a semi-fossil condition at Shaws, 

 in Dumfriesshire, in peat moss lying on marl, among 

 the most recent of all our formations, associated 

 moreover with the Red-deer, Roe-buck, Urus, and 

 Reindeer ; the skull being that of a large adult 

 animal of great size and strength, f Strange to say, 

 these are the only remains of the Bear which have 

 yet been discovered in Scotland. 



As regards Ireland, some doubt seems to exist in 

 the minds of palaeontologists whether any of the 

 ursine remains discovered there are referable to 



* "!Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland," vol. xiii. p. 360 (1879). 

 f For permission to copy the figure of this skull the author is 

 indebted to Dr. J. A. Smith and the Society above referred to. 



