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1411. A portion of the bony core of the left horn of the same Bos prisms. 

 The circumference of the core of each horn, when entire, measured at 

 the base twenty-two inches. 



These fossils were " dug out of the Till or maiden earth twenty-two 

 feet below the surface at Ilford in Essex, in the year 1786, by Mr. John 

 Gilbert." Hunterian. 



The cores of the horns in the present large extinct species of true 

 Ox bend at first slightly backward and upward, then downward and 

 forward, and finally inward and upward, describing a graceful double 

 curvature ; they are tuberculate at the base, impressed by longitudinal 

 grooves, and irregularly perforated : specimens have been found in British 

 strata in which the length of each horn-core along the outer curve was 

 three feet three inches. 



1412. A fragment of the core of the left horn of the Bos primigenius. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1413. A fragment of the skull, with the base of the core of the left horn, of a 



young or female Bos primigenius. 



It was discovered in drift or diluvium, associated with No. 1035, the 

 canine of a Hippopotamus. Hunterian. 



1414. A portion of the skull, with the right horn-core, of a young or female 



Bos primigenius. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1415. The right metacarpal bone of the Bos primigenius. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian, 



1416. The left metacarpal bone of the same Bos primigenius. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1417- Fragments of the shaft of the tibia of a large Bos or Urus. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1418. The last left molar of a Bos or Urus. 



" It was found six feet below the surface of the ground, near 

 Gloucester." Presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart., F.R.S. 



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