310 Prof. Reply to Dr Flemings Remarhs 
such history to it when he gave it to the museum at Dundee. 
In his letter to me on this subject, he says, It had a long 
time been in possession of my father, who, I am inclined to be- 
lieve, obtained it from some friend, whilst he was Superinten- 
dant of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh.” He adds, 
‘‘ Had it been found in the lake at Forfar, it is not probable 
that so remarkable a circumstance should have remained un- 
known to me, or any of my family.” The story of the other 
two horns of the rhinoceros, said to have been found in the 
moss of Blair-Drummond, and of which Dr Fleming is anxious, 
as he well may be, to discover the skulls from whence they were 
derived, I found to originate in another mistake of a similar 
kind. Professor Jameson had been informed of the supposed 
discovery of these horns by a gentleman of Stirling, who is fac- 
tor to the estate of Blair-Drummond. I proceeded to Stirling, 
and found this gentleman to be a man of accurate observation 
as to the geological structure of this district, and particularly of 
the peat and alluvial deposits in which these horns were said to 
have been discovered. But he informed me that he had no per- 
sonal knowledge of the finding of them ; that the discovery was 
made many years ago by some of his father’s workmen, who, 
together with his father, are now dead ; but that he believed the 
horns were still existing in the House of Blair-Drummond. I 
applied forthwith to Mr Drummond for further information, 
and learnt from him that there were some years ago two horns 
of a rhinoceros some'where about his house, and that they have 
since been removed to that of his mother in Edinburgh He 
further add^, “ I know nothing of their history but what my 
factor tells me, and he seems uncertain whether his father had 
seen them dug up, or had only been told by some person that 
they were found at some former time. As to the question about 
• Professor Jameson has lately examined these horns, and informs me,,“ that 
they differ not in shape from those of the living two-horned rhinoceros ; that the 
fibres at their base exhibit the usual transparency of recent horns, and that the 
base of one of them is perforated with round sinuous holes, like those made in tim- 
ber by the Teredo, but smaller.” Holes of this kind are not uncommon in recent 
horns of this animal; they occur in a specimen in the Oxford Museum, and still 
retain within them the husk or sheath of some parasitic worms resembling mag- 
gots, by which they were produced. 
