On some Fossil Bovine Remains found in Britain. 75 
Right Femur, 
Extreme length, 
CirGumference of middle of shaft, 
Fossil. 
Inches. 
20J 
Existing. 
Inches. 
17 
Diameter across condyles posteriorly, 
Greatest diameter of upper end of bone, 
6 
. 7 
6 
Left Scapula. 
Extreme length, . . 
Extreme breadth, 
Length of spine, 
Longest diameter of glenoid fossa, 
19 
15 
H 
15i 
9,i 
13 
93. 
Right Humerus. 
Extreme length, . . . 
17i 
13 
Fossil. 
Right Humerus. Inches. 
Circumference of middle of shaft, . 9 
Breadth across condyles, . . • 4^ 
Greatest diameter of articular surface of head, 5 
Existing. 
Inches. 
7 
^ 
4 
The rib is most probably the seventh on the right side. Its 
length is 28 inches, and its greatest breadth 2i inches. 
The vertebra is the second cervical or axis. 
Inches. 
Extreme height, ... 8 
Extreme antero-posterior diameter, . 7 
Circumference of anterior articular surface, 14 
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 
