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inferred that an actual tooth, and not a cast merely, formed 

 part of the present sent to Paris. There is nothing, how- 

 ever, in either of the letters to justify this inference. On 

 the contrary, MacEnery's list of the specimens he sent to 

 York closes with the remark that " Similar collections to 

 the one now forwarded have been transmitted to Cuvier for 

 the Paris Museum, to Professor Buckland for the London 

 Geological Society, and to Bristol;" thus rendering it at 

 least probable that, as to York, a " correct cast" only was 

 sent to Paris. That casts were sent thither is quite certain, 

 for, when visiting the museum, May 2nd, 1872, we made a 

 special and successful search for them : and whilst they 

 were before us, made the following notes : — " In the Palae- 

 ontological Museum, in the Jardin des Plantes, there are 

 three plaster casts of teeth of Machairodus from Kent's 

 Cavern, two canines, and one incisor. The crown of the 

 first is broken. 



" The following three labels accompany them : — 



" Label 1. ' Felis cultridens d'Angleterre, Ost. PI. xvii.' 



" Label 2. ' Modeles en Platre de 2 canines superieures 

 donnes, par Mr. Mac-Enri.' 



''Label 3. ' Modeles en PTatre d'un Incisive sup. par Mr. 

 Mac-Enri.' " 



There was certainly no actual tooth of Machairodus from 

 Kent's Hole in the collection ; and when it is remarked 

 that the casts presented in 1826 had been carefully pre- 

 served for forty-six years, it may be concluded that less 

 care would not have been bestowed on an original tooth, 

 and that there is nothing to warrant the belief that more 

 than five canines — the number mentioned by MacEnery — 

 were found in the cavern. 



2. The N timber of the Incisors. — We have already seen that 

 according to MacEnery's statement he found one incisor, 

 and that when describing it he referred to figs. 8 and 9, 

 which do not occur in any of his series of plates which 

 have been recovered, but were perhaps intended to be intro- 

 duced into " Plate F" — his Machairodus plate. 



In 1869, several plates were presented to the Torquay 

 Natural History Society by gentlemen who had obtained 

 them from an executor of Mr. MacEnery, whose property 

 they formerly were ; many of them were copies of the 

 seventeen already mentioned, but two of them were new 

 ones belonging to the same series — plates O and U. Besides 

 these were some that certainly did not represent Kent's 

 Cavern fossils, and had nothing whatever to do with the 

 series. There was one, however, a drawing in Indian-ink, 



