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Boyd Dawkins at first thought we possessed bones of this 
animal, but on further comparison found them to belong to 
the bison, which is, of course, a totally distinct species. 
In conclusion attention was drawn to the absence of signs 
of glacial action in the neighbourhood of Castleton, and to 
the * fact that such signs were only found on the western 
slope of the western fork of the Pennine chain in Derby ° 
shire, Cheshire, and Stafibrdshire. 
“ On some teeth from a fissure in Waterhouses Quarry, in 
Staffordshire.” 
Mr. Pennington called attention to some teeth of a bison 
(Bos prisons) from a fissure in a quarry at Waterhouses. 
The animal had evidently fallen in whilst coming to drink 
at the river Hamps. It had been erroneously described as 
an Irish elk. 
Mr. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., said that the two most abundant 
animals in the Windy Knoll fissure were the Bison and the 
Reindeer. It is worthy of remark that the young of the 
former were out of all proportion to the adult, a fact which 
implies that the place was haunted by these animals in the 
summer and early autumn, the number of calves under five 
months being very considerable, and May being the calving 
time of the Bison. They were unaccompanied by any other 
herbivora, the small phalange which I had at first referred 
to the Roedeer, viewed in the light of the large series dis- 
covered by Mr. Pennington, belonging to the former animal. 
There were also the remains of the hare, rabbit and water 
rat. 
The other animals which have been discovered consist of 
the wolf and bear, and these remains are comparatively 
rare. 
There is nothing of any importance to be remarked con- 
cerniug the wolf, but the ursine remains are of peculiar 
interest as implying tlie existence of a new carnivore in 
