ON THE BONES OF THE RHINOCEROS, 433 



that of Sumatra is 6 feet 8 inches long, and 4 feet high. We have, as 

 yet, from; Java, but one young individual, 5 feet 6 inches long and 3 

 feet high ; but we see by the skeleton, that the species becomes greater 

 than that of Sumatra. 



Another Addition. 



M. Campbell, (sent from the London Missionary Society), in the ac- 

 count of his second voyage to the south of Africa*, states that several 

 rhinoceroses had entered the city of Mashaw, the chief place of a plan- 

 tation in the interior, situate nearly under the tropic of Capricorn ; the 

 inhabitants killed four of them, of which they gave him a head which 

 he deposited in the Museum of the Society to which he belongs, in the 

 Old Jewry, London. 



The first view of this head is very striking, by reason of its anterior 

 horn being much longer, thinner, and being directed more forwards, 

 than in the ordinary rhinoceroses of Africa — resembling, however, se- 

 veral of those seen in the cabinets. 



Sir Everard Home published, in the Philosophical Transactions of 

 1822, 1st part, p. 38, a figure of this head, very well drawn by M. 

 Clift, and considered it as presenting a, perfect resemblance to the fossil 

 skulls of Siberia. This resemblance is such, added he, that there no 

 longer remains any marked character, and that if the one was not fossil? 

 and the other living, they would be referred to the same species. To 

 render this resemblance more sensible to his readers, he caused to be en- 

 graved, at the same time, the figure of a skull of a fossil rhinoceros, 33 

 English inches long, formerly given to Sir J. Banks by the Emperor of 

 Russia, and now deposited in the British Museum, which, according to 

 the author's own words, is similar to that which M. Buckland was kind 

 enough to present to the King's Cabinet. Sir Everard Home considers 

 these observations as calculated to diminish considerably our faith in 

 the differences of living animals and fossil animals. 



So novel a result, announced by so distinguished an anatomist, could 

 not fail to attract all my attention. 



Indeed, it was already easy for me, even from Sir Everard's Agere 

 alone, to see that this resemblance was far from being complete. 



Any one may satisfy himself, as I did, by merely throwing his eye 

 over these figures, which I had sketched, plate 201, figs. 2 and 3, and 

 above which I caused to be placed, fig. 1 , that of an ordinary rhinoce- 

 ros of Africa, with two horns, disencumbered, as were the two others, 

 of its lower jaw. 



Abstracting from the occiput and zygomatic arch of the head of the 

 Caffrerian rhinoceros, fig. 2, it is manifest to any one that this head has 

 the same profile, the same proportions between the height and length, 

 between the anterior part as far as the orbit, and the posterior part be- 

 hind the orbit, the same form of nasal slope, the same position of the 

 horns and teeth, as the ordinary head of that of Africa, fig. 1, and that 

 it is only a little larger, but only so in a degree not exceeding that which 



* Travels in South Africa, &c, by the Rev. John Campbell, 2 vols. Lond., 1822, 

 V. i, p. 294. 



