210 The Kent's Hole Machairodus. [April, 



Geological Survey in Jermyn Street, London. The remain- 

 ing three were in MacEnery's collection at his decease, and 

 were disposed of at the sale of his effects. Dr. Battersby, 

 late of Torquay, says in a letter to us on the subject, " There 

 was a card sold at Mr. MacEnery's sale with three teeth 

 (serrated on each side), and marked Ursus cultridens. These 

 were purchased jointly by Dr. Phillips and myself. After 

 the sale was over, Mr. Konig, of the British Museum, came 

 to me and said he had been particularly anxious to have 

 bought them, but had not observed they were on the card 

 until after it was knocked down. Dr. Phillips and I then 

 agreed to give him one for the Museum. Dr. Phillips sent 

 his to the Museum at Oxford. . . . The third I forwarded 

 to Lord Enniskillen, with a number of other teeth, &c, I 

 had purchased for him." . . . Lord Enniskillen subse- 

 quently sent his specimen to the Museum of the College of 

 Surgeons, London. It is unnecessary to add that the 

 specimens are carefully preserved in the five museums named 

 above. 



As will subsequently be shown, the upper and lower 

 canines of Machairodus are so very dissimilar as to render it 

 quite safe to assert that the Kent's Hole specimens all 

 belonged to the upper series, and thus to render it certain 

 that at least three individuals of Machairodus latidens found 

 their way to Britain ; and, from what has been stated, that 

 two of them were adults and perhaps aged, whilst the third 

 was young. 



The following questions, however, have lately been raised 

 respecting the actual number of teeth found : — 



1. Were there not more than five canines ? 



2. Were there not two incisors ? 



i. The Number of the Canines. — During the progress of his 

 researches, Mr. MacEnery sent specimens of the cavern 

 remains and casts of the rarer fossils to various museums, 

 and amongst others to London, Paris, York, and Bristol. 

 His present to York included " a correct cast of one of the 

 serrated teeth of the Ursus cultridens of Cuvier," and was 

 accompanied by a descriptive letter, dated May 3, 1826, 

 enclosing copies of the letters which, as already mentioned, 

 he had received from Cuvier and Buckland. In the Report 

 on MacEnery's present and communication, drawn up by 

 the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, President of the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Society, and laid before that body, it is stated that 

 " M. Cuvier .... found one of the specimens ... to be 

 the canine tooth of that species of bear which he has 

 named Ursus cultridens ;" and from this passage it has been 



