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Show 614 MR. A. SMITH WOODWARD ON THE [Nov. 4, innumerable fossil bones disinterred from almost all caverns and valley deposits where excavations have been made. So long ago as 1757, it is true, Dr. J. Collet incidentally mentioned the discovery Frontlet and horn-cores of Saiga tatarica, $. Half nat. size. of the horns of an antelope near Newbury, in Berkshire x; and some have supposed that the Saiga may possibly be the species in question. But the fossil on which the determination was based was never described, while it is now unknown ; and there is thus considerable doubt as to whether it was not merely a fragment of the common goat2. A recent discovery by Dr. J. R. Leeson, of Twickenham, in the Pleistocene deposits of that neighbourhood, at last affords some 1 Phil. Trans. 1757, p. 112. 2 B. T. Newton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xl. (1884), p. 290. |
