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Devonshire. — Bencli Cave, Brixham (W. A. Sanford) ; Kent’s Hole, 
Torquay (Hus. Geol. Soc., Mus. Boy. Coll. Surg., and Mus. Oxford) ; 
Oreston, near Plymouth (Brit. Mus. and Mus. Geol. Soc. ; Owen, 
“ Brit. Foss. Mamm.” p. 125). 
Glamorganshire. — Gower, Bacon’s Hole (Mus. Swansea ; Falconer, 
“ Palseont. Mem.” ii. pp. 183, 325, 340, 349, 501) ; Bosco’s Hole 
(Mus. Swansea ; Falconer, tom. cit. pp. 510, 589) ; Crow Hole 
(Mus. Swansea ; Falconer, tom. cit. p. 519) ; Deborah Den (Mus. 
Swansea ; Falconer, tom. cit. p. 407) ; Long Hole (Falconer, tom. 
cit. pp. 400, 525, 538) ; Minchin Hole (Brit. Mus. ; Mus. Swansea) ; 
Paviland (Mus. Oxford and Swansea ; Owen, “ Brit. Foss. Mamm.” 
p. 124) ; Bavenscliff (Falconer, tom. cit. p. 519) ; Spritsail Tor 
(“ Id.” pp. 179, 462, 477, 522). 
Gloucestershire. — Tewkesbury (Owen, “ Brit. Foss. Mamm.”). 
Kent. — Murston, Sittingbourne (Mus. Geol. Survey). 
Norfolk. — Denver Sluice* (Mus. Geol. Cambr.). 
Oxfordshire. — Thame (Coll. Codrington, “ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.” 
xx. p. 374). 
Somersetshire. — Benwell Cave (W. Borrer) ; Blendon (Mus. Taunton) ; 
Hutton (Mus. Taunton) ; Sandford Hill (Mus. Taunton) ; Uphill 
(Mus. Bath and Taunton) ; Wokey Hole (Mus. Oxford, Taunton, 
and Bristol). 
Sussex. — Bracklesham (Brit. Mus. and Mus. Chichester) ; Pevensey t 
(“ Sussex Archmol.” Coll. xxiv. p. 160). 
Wiltshire. — Yale of Kennet (“ Sussex Archaeol.” tom. cit.). 
Yorkshire. — Bielbecks (Mus. York ; “ Phil. Mag.” vol. vi. p. 225) ; 
Kirkdale (Brit. Mus., Mus. Geol. Soc. and Boy. Coll. Surg. ; 
Buckland, “Trans. Boy. Soc.” 1822 ; Clift, id. 1823, p. 90). 
We have here a dozen counties in different parts of England 
and Wales, north, south, east, and west, which show clearly 
from their position how very generally distributed the wolf must 
formerly have been. 
The geological record, however, is but an imperfect one in 
showing the distribution of the wolf in bygone times, for to 
the localities above mentioned might be added numerous 
others in which we know from history that this animal formerly 
abounded. The forest of Biddlesdale in Northumberland ; the 
great forests of Blackburnshire and Bowland in Lancashire ; 
Richmond Forest, Yorkshire; Sherwood Forest, Nottingham- 
shire ; Savernake Forest, Wilts ; the New Forest ; the forests of 
* A landscape by B. W. Fraser “On the Ouze near Denver Sluice” was 
exhibited at the Boyal Academy 1877, No. 794. The locality is a few miles 
to the South of Downham Market, and just below where the old and new 
Bedford rivers run into the natural stream. 
t In 1851 many skulls of wolves were taken out of a disused mediaeval 
well at Pevensey Castle. 
