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the Great Ice Age had passed away the animals which 
roamed the land were more nearly allied to those now 
existing. They, however, included Elephas primigenius 
ormammoth, Bos primigenius, Cervus tarandus, Cervus 
elaphus, Hippopotamus, Hyena, Rhinoceros, Sus, ete. 
Examples of the remains of some of these animals 
are shown in Wall Cases 19 and 20. ‘The climate in 
which the mammoth, etc., lived was still exceedingly 
rigorous, for that beast was covered with long woolly hair 
to protect it from the cold. Man was a contemporary 
of this old fauna of the Quaternary period, for on 
fragments of tusks of the mammoth rudely-executed 
drawings of animal forms indicate that he was present, 
and had then reached the point when arts were, 
introduced. 
Belonging to a still later portion of the Quaternary 
period the Alluvial deposits of our rivers have yielded 
remains of the Wolf and other animals that have 
become extinct within historic times. A fine skull of 
the Gigantic Ox, from a valley deposit near Aylsham, 
illustrates this group of animals. ‘These serve to 
connect the past with the present. 
The Fitch Collection, 
The flight of stairs in the Geological Gallery leads 
to a small handsomely-fitted-up room, specially con- 
structed to receive the valuable antiquarian collection 
given to the Museum just before his death by Mr. R. 
Fitch, F.S.A., whose miniature portrait is to be seen: 
in the case in the centre of the apartment, and one 
taken at a later date hangs on the wall. Mr. Fitch, 
who died in 1895, at the advanced age of 92, had, 
throughout his long life, been a collector of all kinds 
of local antiquities, and in this work a deep interest 
was taken by his wife, who was born in the Castle, of 
