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followed by Woodward and Sherborn. 1 Owen gives no special account of the 

 weasel in his ' British Fossil Mammals and Birds,' and it is not included by 

 Dawkins in his list of British post-glacial Mammalia. Passing to the continental 

 records : Schmerling 2 figured a musteline cranium and mandible which he did not 

 venture to name, but which agreed in point of size with the weasel. Woldrich, 3 in 

 each of his three papers on the ' Diluvial Fauna of Zuzlawitz,' described bones of 

 the weasel, referring very small specimens to a new species under the name of 

 Foetorius minutus. 



Newton 4 recorded skulls and limb-bones from the Ightham fissure both of the 

 common weasel and of a smaller variety, which he, following Woldrich, 5 referred 

 to under the specific name of minuta. It is represented in the Manchester Museum 

 by an imperfect mandible from Creswell Crags, and by other remains from Dog 

 Holes, Warton Crag, Lancashire. 



Glllo lllSCUS, THE GrLUTT0JS\ 



The earliest recognition of the glutton as a member of the Pleistocene fauna 

 is due to Goldfuss 6 who in 1818 gave a good figure of an almost perfect skull from 

 Grailenreuth, seeking to make of it a new species under the name of Gulo spelseus. 

 At a later date he obtained a specimen from Sundvvig to which he referred in his 

 ' Saugethiere der Vorwelt,' 1823 (p. 481). Soemmering also procured a very 

 well-preserved skull from Grailenreuth, which he submitted to Cuvier, who gave a 

 reduced figure of it. 7 Schmerling 8 obtained only teeth, a femur and part of a 

 pelvis from the caverns of Liege. 



The remains of the glutton found in Britain are rare and fragmentary. They 

 are first met with in the Forest Bed, part of a left mandibular ramus having been 

 described by Newton 9 from Mundesley. It has been recorded from a considerable 

 number of Pleistocene caves. The earliest record is that of Bellamy 10 from Yealm 

 Bridge, Devon, confirmed by Pengelly 11 in 1871. 



1 ' Catal. Brit. Foss. Vertebrata ' (1890), p. 368. 



2 ' Eecherches Oss. Foss. Cavernes de Liege,' ii, pi. i, figs. 4 — 6. 

 s ' Sitzb. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien,' lxxxviii (1884), pt. i, p. 1000. 



4 ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' lv (1899), p. 425. 5 ibid ., 1 (1894), p. 201. 



6 'Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.,' ix (1818), p. 311, pi. viii. The mandibular ramus attributed 

 by Golclfuss to a Viverra and figured by him (' Die Umgebungen von Muggendorf,' v, 1810, 3) is 

 assigned by Schmerling to a marten or polecat (' Cavernes de Liege,' ii, p. 5) and by de Blainville 

 (' Oste'ographie — Carnassiers, Mustek,' p. 53) to the glutton. 



7 'Oss. Foss.,' ed. 2, 1825, pi. xxxi, figs. 23—25. 



8 ' Eecherches Oss. Foss. Cavernes de Liege,' i, p. 167. 



9 ' G-eol. Mag.' [2] vii, 1880, p. 424, pi. xv, and " Vert. Forest Bed" (' Mem. G-eol. Surv.,' 1882),. 

 p. 17, pi. vi. 



10 'Nat, Hist. S. Devon.,' pp. 89, 94, 102. " 'Trans. Devon. Assoc.,' iv, 1871, pp. 98, 102. 



