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land, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. In the North Biding of Yorkshire its teeth have 

 been obtained from the bone-cave of Kirby-Moorside, 1 along with the remains of the Cave 

 Hysena and Wolf. Two canines and a metacarpal also were found by Dr. Bucklandin the 

 Hysena-den of Kirkclale, 2 as well as a calcaneum that is now in the York Museum, 

 associated with relics of the leptorhine Rhinoceros of Owen, the Mammoth, Bison, Rein- 

 deer, and others. In the river-deposit also of Bielbecks a very fine series of animals, 

 consisting of Ursus, Bison, Wolf, and Cave Lion, were disinterred by the Rev. W. 

 Vernon, E.R.S., in 1829, the leonine remains being a' fragment of maxillary, both 

 rami of the lower jaw, the ulna, radius, femur, and metatarsals, all of which belong to 

 one individual. 3 The numerous caves in the Mountain-limestone of Lancashire and 

 Derbyshire, strange to say, have not furnished a single fragment that can be attributed 

 to the Lion, although they have been diligently explored by various observers ; nor have 

 the Midland Counties furnished the least trace of its existence as far south as the meridian 

 of Oxford. 



In the Eastern Counties it is verv rare. The Post-o-lacial gravels of Barnwell have 

 yielded a lower jaw that is preserved in the Natural History Collection at Cambridge, 

 and a femur that is now in the British Museum. In Suffolk its remains have been found 

 in the gravel-bed pierced by the tunnel at Ipswich, along with those of the Roedeer, 

 Bison, Irish Elk, tichorhine Rhinoceros, Mammoth, Grizzly Bear, and others. 4 In North 

 Essex the energetic collector Mr. John Brown, of Stanway, obtained a humerus from 

 Clacton, now in the British Museum, and some other remains which Professor Owen 

 quotes from Walton. 5 



The River-deposits of the great valley of the Thames have furnished its remains in 

 comparative abundance. Its teeth occur at Hurley Bottom, 6 in Berkshire, along with 

 the bones of the tichorhine Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus major. The great sheet of 

 gravel, also, on which London stands, has yielded several isolated teeth to various 

 collectors. Erom the great brick-pit at Ilford, on the north side of the Thames, one 

 metacarpal has been obtained by Dr. Cotton, and two rami respectively by Mr. Antonio 

 Brady and Mr. R. D. Darbishire, along with the remains of Elephas antiquus, Mammoth, 

 Red-deer, Beaver, and other mammals. In the corresponding sheet of brickearth on the 

 opposite side of the river, extending from Eritli to Crayford, a lower jaw and an os inno- 

 minatum 7 (PI. Ill, fig. 1) were found by Mr. Swayne; a canine, two lower jaws (PI. I, 

 fig. 3), a humerus, metacarpal, metatarsal, and a phalange, by Dr. Spurrell ; a gigantic 

 canine by Professor Morris; and a lower jaw by Mr. Grantham. In the same county 



1 Museum of College of Surgeons. 



2 British Museum. 



3 All these remains are preserved in the York Museum. 



* In the collection of E. Fitch, Esq., F.G.S., of Norwich. 



5 ' Brit. Foss. Mam.,' p. 152. We have been unable to find out where these remains are preserved. 



6 Oxford Museum. 



7 Now in the British Museum. 



