Quartz Rock of the Lie key Hill , &cc, 537 
appears to have been among the original collection of bones de- 
posited in the Ashmolean Museum, but the place where it was found 
is not recorded. A fragment of another head of the same species 
of rhinoceros, fifteen inches long, is mentioned by Dr. N. Green, 
in p. 254. of his catalogue of the Museum of the Royal Society, 
(Anno 1681) as having been found at Chartham, near Canterbury. 
These all belong to the same extinct species of the double-horned 
fossil Rhinoceros of Siberia,* and appear to have been the contem- 
poraries and compatriots of the extinct elephant or mammoth, which 
is found so abundantly throughout the northern regions of Europe, 
Asia, and America, and even in South America in the elevated 
plains of Peru and Quito, buried in diluvian gravel under circum- 
stances in all respects so similar as to oblige us to refer their origin 
to a common cause, viz. the latest diluvian catastrophe that has 
affected the surface of our globe. 
* The largest and finest head of this species of Rhinoceros which I have ever seen, 
has been sent to me lately from Siberia by Mr. J. Prescott, of St. Petersburg, whose kind- 
ness on this occasion has fortunately put it in my power to present, through M. Cuvier, to 
the Museum of the Royal Garden at Paris, a fossil which has hitherto been a desideratum 
in that rich and splendid cabinet. In the British Museum is a similar head, which was 
presented by the Emperor of Russia to the late Sir Joseph Banks. 
I have lately received from Warwickshire an Os humeri and Os inuominatum of 
Rhinoceros, in a state of preservation as perfect as if they had been dissected from a recent 
animal. 
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