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hundred years ago, engraved a skull of this sort, the design of which 
was sent him by his friend Caius, who informs us he had seen a similar 
skull in Warwick Castle. The specimen of this fossil which I possess 
was dug up in Dumfrieshire. The following are its measurements : 
Feet. Inches. 
The length of the bony core of each horn 2 6 
Circumference at its base 1 5 
Width of the forehead at the root of the horns ... 1 0§ 
Distance of the tips of the horns from each other 2 11 
M. Pallas describes a fossil skull found in Siberia, which he con- 
cluded to have belonged to the common buffalo of India and of Italy ; 
to which opinion he was led by the angle or ridge, which runs the 
length of the horn. Nov. Com. Petrop. xm. p. 460. 
The examination of this fossil induced M. Cuvier to conclude, that 
this could not be a skull of the common buffalo ; since, in this animal, 
the width of the head is less in proportion to the length than in the 
fossil, particularly between the orbits ; the distance of which, in the 
fossil, is a striking character. The curvature of the horns is also 
different. In the common buffalo they turn backwards, at the side, 
and upwards, without coming forward; but, in the fossil, they 
go obliquely upwards by the side, and their point comes forward. 
The longitudinal projecting angle also appears to be less strongly 
marked. 
M. Pallas, indeed, afterwards concluded, that these horns were not 
of the qommon buffalo, but of a supposed large species described by 
Dr. Anderson in the Bee, Dec. 1792, and to which the name of Arnis 
has been given. But M. Cuvier offers very good reasons for sup- 
posing that mistakes have been made with respect to the size of this 
animal, which he conceives to be nothing more than a race of buffaloes, 
with uncommonly large horns, but by no means of a particular 
species. From every consideration, he is therefore led to suppose 
that the fossil buffaloes’ heads of Siberia belong to a particular species, 
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