THE 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Aprit 27th, 1870. 5 
Robert Logan Jack, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Scotland ; 
George ‘Alexander Lebour, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Eng- 
land and Wales; Coles Child, Esq., of the Palace, Bromley, 8. E., 
and Harry Rivington, Ksq., 29 Finsbury Square, N., were elected 
Fellows of the Society; and Prof. Joseph Szabo, of Pesth, was 
elected a Foreign Correspondent. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. On the Sprctzs of Rurnoceros whose Remains were found in a 
FIssURE-CAVERN at OrEsTON 72 1816. By Grorexr Busk, F.R.S., 
F.G.8. 
Iy the year 1816, during the course of the quarrying of the lime- 
stone-rock at Oreston for the construction of the Plymouth Break- 
water, a cavernous fissure was opened, containing numerous more or 
less fragmentary remains of /thinoceros, but none of any other animal. 
Notice of this discovery was given by Mr. Whidbey, the engineer 
of the works, to Sir Joseph Banks, at whose instance the bones 
were submitted to Sir Everard Home for examination, by whom a 
short paper on the subject was communicated to the Royal Society, 
which was published in the ‘ Philosophical Transactions’ for 1817. 
This paper contains little more than a mere enumeration of the 
bones and teeth, which are all assigned to Rhinoceros; and it was 
considered probable by Sir Everard Home that they belonged to three 
individuals. 
In 1821 several other cavities in the limestone, of the same kind, 
were encountered, in one of which, amongst other mammalian re- 
mains, chiefly of Bear, a single tooth of Rhinoceros was met with, 
“lying apart from the rest;” this is described by Sir E. Home 
as the “fourth grinder from the front, right side, of the Single- 
horned Rhinoceros.” 
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