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Show 1890.] ON THE DOMESTIC DOG. 5 L. hessica may therefore be provisionally defined as an Otter of the approximate size of L. ellioti, with a somewhat larger inner cusp and cingulum to the lower carnassial, in which the inner wall of the talon is also rather higher. A. Outer view of restored mandible of Lutra hessica. B. Inner and oral views of m. 1 and pm. 4 of L. ellioti. C. Ditto of L. hessica. D. Ditto of L. cinerea. I may add that the matrix adhering to the specimen as well as the characters of the bone itself agree with those of other Eppelsheim fossils, so that I have no doubt as to the correctness of the locality assigned to this fossil. 2. On some Cranial and Dental Characters of the Domestic Dog. By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE, M.AV M.D., Professor of Anatomy in the Queen's College, Birmingham, and JOHN HUMPHREYS, L.D.S., Lecturer on Dental • Anatomy and Physiology in the same College. [Received November 19, 1889.] The observations upon which the following remarks are based were commenced more than three years ago. After they had been carried on for some time we became aware of Professor Huxley's paper " O n the Cranial and Dental Characters of the Canidce" \ the remark at the end of which, that the author " deferred the consideration of the origin and relations of the domestic dogs until the evidence which he was collecting was more complete," would have 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 238. |
