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Show 50 DR. 0. W. ANDREWS ON [Jan. 1 7, 8. Note on some recently discovered Remains of the Musk- Ox (Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann, sp.) from the Pleistocene Beds of Southern England. By C. W . A n d r e w s , D.Sc., F.Z.S. (British Museum, Natural History). [Received January 9, 1905.] (Text figures 13 & 14.) Since 1855, the date of the discovery by Lord Avebury and the Rev. Charles Kingsley of a skull of the Musk-Ox in the loAV-level gravels of the Thames at Maidenhead, only some half-a-dozen instances of the occurrence of remains of this animal in Britain have been recorded. Details of these finds are given by Prof. Boyd Dawkins in the Memoir on the Pleistocene Mammals of Britain, Pt. V., published by the Palaeontographical Society*. Remains of this animal being so rare, no apology will be needed for drawing attention to two recent discoveries of further evidence of its former existence in this country. The first of these was made in 1902 by the Rev. B. Hale Wortham, who found in the Brick Earths of the Thames at Plumstead an axis vertebra, part of a right femur, and the shaft of a radius, which were presented to the British Museum, where they were determined by Dr. A. Smith Woodward as belonging to this species. The axis (text-fig. 13) has been compared with that of a large Text-fig. 13. Axis vertebra of Musk Ox, from Brick-eartbs of the Thames at Plumstead. male Musk-Ox from North America, and has been found to differ from it in size and in some details of structure, ft is considerably # Mon. Palseont. Soc. 1872. |