162 Dr John Alex. Smith’s Notice of the 
engaged in the work of industrial education more useful co- 
operation among themselves—a more sustained energy in 
their action, and greater efficiency and influence in their re- 
sults, whereby will naturally result a more just and more 
general appreciation by the public of the actual excellencies 
of each, and a more certain recognition and reward to those 
who have been the agents of success, and who are entitled to 
the fair rewards of their honourable exertion.—(Sullivan’s 
Dublin Journal.) 
Notice of Two Additional Crania of the Ancient Short- 
horned Ox (Bos longifrons, Owen), found some time ago 
near Newstead, Roxburghshire. By JOHN ALEX. SMITH, 
M.D.* Communicated by the Author. 
In a previous communication to the Society (April, 1851) 
I exhibited and described four more or less perfect crania of 
this ox, the Bos longifrons, which were found during the 
formation of a cutting on the Hawick branch of the North 
British Railway, in the vale of Melrose, a little to the east 
of the village of Newstead. They were discovered in a series 
of deep well-like shafts, which contained various remains, 
with Roman pottery and a few coins. Since that time I have 
been able to procure the two portions of skulls now before 
the Society, which, I believe, completes the collection of 
ancient animal remains that have been obtained from this 
place. The larger of the two skulls seems to have been an 
animal of rather greater size than any of those formerly 
described, measuring, as it does, about 7} inches across the 
forehead between the roots of the horn-cores ; and the horn- 
cores themselves are also larger, being 74 inches in circum- 
ference at the base. They are about 5} inches in length, 
but the points being broken, we cannot of course determine 
this measurement correctly. This skull is also more pro- 
minent in the upper part of the forehead, and has the 
‘‘ prominent edge standing up along the middle of the fore- 
head,” which Professor Nilsson of Lund gives as a specific 
character of this ox, more distinctly marked than in any of 
the other specimens. The second skull belongs to a much 
* Kead before the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh, Jan. 25th, 1854. 
