Plate XXIX.
Rhinoceros sinensis.
1. Last upper molar, m 3, grinding-surface.
2. ,, ,, inner side view.
3. Upper molar, outer enamel-wall.
Tapirus sinensis.
4. Second lower molar, m 2, outer side view.
4.a. ,, „ grinding-surface.
5. First lower molar, m 1, grinding-surface.
6. Second lower premolar, p 3, grinding-surface.
Chalicotherium sinense.
7. Last upper molar, m 3, grinding-surface.
8. ,, ,, rear view.
9. ,, ,, front view.
10. „ „ inner side view.
Anoplotherium commune, Cuv.
11. Upper true molar, from a Montmartre specimen in the British Museum.
Discussion.
The Chairman called, attention to the remarkable association of forms among the fossils described by Prof. Owen.
Prof. Busk remarked that the materials at command seemed to him insufficient for the establishment of new species. He observed that the distinctive characters of Stegodon sinensis appeared to be very slight, and that the Hyoena might just as probably be H. speloea. The tooth of Rhinoceros might be a milk-molar of R. sumatranus or R. sondaicus.
Mr. Boyd Dawkins suggested that, as the specimens were obtained from apothecaries, there was no evidence of the contemporaneity of the fossils.
Mr. H. Woodward stated that Mr. Swinhoe had himself obtained a series of these fossils from a cave many miles inland — he believed, on the course of the Yang-tse-kiang. Mr. "Woodward also called attention to Mr. Hanbury's paper on Chinese Materia Medica, in which many fossil teeth of mammalia are noticed.
Prof. Owen, in reply, stated that great quantities of the fossils had passed through his hands, and that he had selected for description those which, from their minute agreement in chemical and other characters, might justly be inferred to be of the same age, and to be derived from the cave mentioned by Mr. Swinhoe.
3. Further discovery of the Fossil Elephants of Malta.
By Dr. A. A. Caruana.
[Communicated by Dr. A. Leith Adams, F.G.S.]
(Abstract.)
The author described the discovery of some fossil bones in a fissure at Is-Shantiin, at the entrance of the quarry of Micabibba, on the 24th of January of the present year.
The fissure in which the bones were found was an expansion of a
