On some Fossil Bovine Remains found in Britain. 75 



Right Femur, 

 Extreme length, 



Circumference of middle of shaft, 



Diameter across condyles posteriorly, 

 Greatest diameter of upper end of bone, 



Left Scapula. 

 Extreme length, 

 Extreme breadth, 

 Length of spine, 



Longest diameter of glenoid fossa, 



Right Humerus. 

 Extreme length, 



Right Humerus. 

 Circumference of middle of shaft, 

 Breadth across condyles, 



The rib is most probably the seventh on the right side, 

 length is 28 inches, and its greatest breadth inches. 

 The vertebra is the second cervical or axis. 



Fossil. 



Existing. 



Inches. 



Inches. 



20f 



4 



17 



7-1 



6* 



6 



43. 

 ^4 



. 7 



6 



19 



151 



ioj 



H 



15 



13 



H 





17* 



13 



Fossil. 



Existing. 



Inches. 



Inches. 



9 



7 



H 



H 



ead, 5 



4 



Its 



Inches. 



8 

 7 

 14 



Extreme height, 



Extreme antero-posterior diameter, 

 Circumference of anterior articular surface, 



The bulky nature of the spine and other processes of this 

 vertebra point to the great size of the head of the animal to 

 which it belonged, and indicate a corresponding development 

 of the muscles and ligamentous structures which must have 

 been connected to it. 



From some further measurements that I have made, I have 

 endeavoured to arrive at some estimate of the size of the entire 

 skeleton of this great extinct Bos ; this has been done by com- 

 paring the length of certain of the bones of the common ox 

 with the height of that animal's skeleton, and then contrasting 

 them with corresponding bones of the fossil animal now be- 

 fore us ; this comparison has led me to the conclusion, that 

 the skeleton of the extinct animal must have stood nearly six 

 feet in height at the shoulder. If we now imagine this skele- 

 ton clothed with a thick coating of powerful muscles and 

 hairy integument, having appended to the anterior extremity 



