On some Fossil Bovine Remains found in Britain. 7i 



of several new species. &c. By T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D — From the 

 Author. 1. Physikalske Meddelelser af Dr Christopher Hansteen. Chris- 

 tiania, 1858. 2. Inversio Vesicae Urinaria? og Luxationes femorurn 

 congenita?. Af Lektor Voss. Christiania, 1857. 3. Forhandlinger ved 

 de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres, Christiania. 2 vols. 1847-l c 57. — 

 From the Royal University of Christiania. Proceedings of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, No. 12., 1857-1858.— From 

 the Society. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art, 

 new series. No. 18. November 1858. — From the Canadian Institute, 

 Toronto. Transactions of the Botanical Society, vol. vi , part i., 1857- 

 1858 — From the Botanical Society, Edinburgh. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. On some Fossil Bovine remains found in Britain. By Wm. Turner, 

 M.B., London ; Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh. 



The Fossil remains which I am about to bring before the 

 notice of the Society this evening belong to the Bovine 

 Family of the order Ruminantia. They have been collected 

 from various localities, and have been placed at my disposal 

 for purposes cf description by several friends to whose care 

 their preservation is due, and to whom I must confess my 

 acknowledgments for permission to make use of them on this 

 occasion. 



The largest and most characteristic of these Fossil Bones 

 are from the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, where they have formed a part of the osseus collection 

 for upwards of forty years. No description of them has ever 

 been put on record. I have, through the kindness of Professor 

 Goodsir, an opportunity of describing them to the Society this 

 evening. These bones consist of two crania, a femur, scapula, 

 humerus, the second cervical vertebrae, a rib, and the left horn - 

 core with a small portion of the frontal bone. Unfortunately 

 no account either of the locality in which they were obtained, 

 or of the deposit in which they were found lying, has been 

 preserved ; and, from the length of time which has elapsed 

 since they were discovered, it is almost hopeless to expect that 

 any accurate information respecting these important and inte- 

 resting particulars will ever be obtained. If one might form 

 an opinion, however, respecting the nature of the deposit in 

 which they had been imbedded, by the deep brown colour of 



