OVO JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
“The series includes the only remains of reindeer (Cervus 
tarandus) ever found in this locality ; also of a small rodent hitherto 
unidentified, somewhat resembling the lemming; the teeth and 
bones of the woolly rhinoceros (tichorhinus), bear (probably feroz), 
hyzena (spelceus), horse ( fossilis), wolf, fox, wild cat, hog (scrofa) 
sheep or goat, red deer, other cervine remains which appear 
attributable to roe deer, various bovine species (Bos primigenius and 
B. longifrons certainly, Bison priscus probably), dog, hare, with 
some smaller and more fragmentary remains not yet named. 
“The Society is also indebted to Captain Daubeny for the 
presentation of the tooth of a whale, found in connection with the 
Raised Beach on the Hoe about 1838-9, at the same time as the 
whale vertebra previously in the Museum. The tooth is a long 
irregular ovoid, tapering to both ends and slightly arched, its 
length in the straight being 6,3; inches. The root end is perfect, 
the crown broken on one side, and a little worn. The original 
length in the straight did not exceed 7 inches. ‘The length over 
the outside curve from the centre of the base to the centre of point 
is 8 1%, while the inside curve between the same points is 754,. The 
greatest girth is 7 inches; girth at base immediately above root 
opening, 3,4; inches; at an inch from point, 5,2, inches. The 
section is elliptical, and at its greatest breadth, which is 3 inches 
from the point, its transverse diameter is 2,5; inches, and the 
conjugate 254,. 
“From St. George's Hall Quarry Mr. Hine has presented a 
specimen of Atrypa reticularis. 
“The only addition to the mineralogical collection is a very fine 
example of Scheelite (Ca WO,) from Huel Friendship, presented 
by Dr. Merrifield. 
The Curator of Antiquities reports : 
“ A fine block of ‘Jews tin,’ found in digging in his grounds, 
has been presented to the Institution by Mr. Pode, of Slade.” 
FRANCIS BRENT, 
JAMES C, ee oe 
ATHENEUM, 4th April, 1881. 
