CATALOGUE. 



FOSSIL ORGANIC REMAINS. 



Class MAMMALIA. 

 Order CARNIVORA. 

 Tribe Plantigrada. 

 Family TJrsida. 



No. 



1. The skull, wanting the lower jaw, of the great Cave Bear {Ursus 

 spelceus, Blumenbach and Cuvier). 



This is the original specimen described and figured by John Hunter, 

 Philosophical Transactions, vol. lxxxiv. (1794), p. 416, pi. xix. fig. I.* 



From the great extent of the sagittal crest, and the sharpness of the 



* Where not otherwise expressed, all the specimens of the Cave Bear ( Ursus spelaus) form part of 

 the original collection from the bone-caves of Gailenreuth, presented to John Hunter by the Margrave 

 of Anspach, and noticed in the above cited paper in the Philosophical Transactions. 



The following description, by the Margrave of Anspach, of the caves from which the fossils de- 

 scribed in the text were taken, precedes the original memoir. 



" A ridge of primaeval mountains runs almost through Germany, in a direction nearly from west to 

 east ; the Hartz, the mountains of Thuringia, the Fichtelberg in Franconia, are different parts of it, 

 "which in their further extent constitute the Riesenberg, and join the Carpathian mountains. The 

 highest parts of this ridge are granite, and are flanked by alluvial and stratified mountains consisting 

 chiefly of limestone, marl, and sandstone ; such as least is the tract of hills in which the caves to be 



