On some Fossil Bovine Remains found in Britain. 71 
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 Vesicse Urinariae og Luxationes femorum 
congenitse. Af Lektor Voss. Christiania, 1857. 3. Forhandlinger ved 
de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres, Christiania. 2 vols. 1847-1^'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 esse us 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 
