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sions, however, were considerably greater than in the skeleton 

 of the Hamilton Wild White Ox.' 1 



The only other bovine remains at present authenticated from 

 Lakeland deposits are identical with a skull obtained in the 

 Eavenglass estuary by Joseph Farren the fisherman. This was 

 found in the sand of the river Irt, but Farren told me that he 

 thought it must have been washed out of a peat deposit. It 

 was at once claimed by the lord of the manor, and has remained 

 ever since at Muncaster Castle. In the spring of the present 

 year Mr. Thorpe accompanied me to Muncaster, in order that 

 we might take advantage of Lord Muncaster's kind permission 

 to reproduce the head in this work. 



The Auroch (the Muncaster Castle Ox). 



Having submitted copies of Mr. Thorpe's photographs to Mr. 

 R. Lydekker, I had the pleasure of receiving the following 

 criticism from that gentleman : ' The two photos,' he wrote, 

 * which I am very pleased to have, indicate a very good skull of 

 B. primigenius. The specimen belongs to the so-called " trocho- 

 ceros" or curved -horned form, in which the horns are more 



1 Proc. Ryl. Phys. Soc, vol. viii. Part n. pp. 333-338. See also a 

 paper by J. Leitch, M. B. , CM., entitled Notes on the Geological formation 

 and fossils of the Silloth New Dock, printed in the Transactions of the 

 Cumberland and Westmorland Association, No. ix. pp. 169-174. Some 

 of the bones are figured by Dr. Leitch. 



