Nature . was definitely ascertained to be fifteenon each side, thus positively determiningthe dorsal vertebral formula—a matter ofvery great importance. These resultsalone justified the labour and expenseinvolved, and the mount is now a modelof its kind, since it not only displays thereal anatomical character and naturalposition of the animal, but every bone onone side of the body or the other can beremoved for purposes of detailed strikes us as a rather slenderly built,straight-limbed animal, digitigrade likethe tapir, five-toed, but almost exclusivelysupported upon three toes. Sir W
Nature . was definitely ascertained to be fifteenon each side, thus positively determiningthe dorsal vertebral formula—a matter ofvery great importance. These resultsalone justified the labour and expenseinvolved, and the mount is now a modelof its kind, since it not only displays thereal anatomical character and naturalposition of the animal, but every bone onone side of the body or the other can beremoved for purposes of detailed strikes us as a rather slenderly built,straight-limbed animal, digitigrade likethe tapir, five-toed, but almost exclusivelysupported upon three toes. Sir William Flowers restor-ation, in his volume upon the Horse, is very nearlycorrect; the upwardly arched back, powerful lumbarverlebr;e, long hind quarters and long powerful tail,NO. 1525, VOL. 59] when contrasted with the much shorter fore quartersrather low withers and small head, are all reminiscent >tifthe clawed ancestry of this hoofed animal. Of much more recent as;e is the skeleton of Teleoceras. fossiger, a feebly horned rhinoceros living in greatnumbers at the top of the Miocene. This animal re-presents an aged female, of very large size, mountedfrom materials belonging to probably twenty individuals. January 19, 1899] NA TURE •?7:3 which were secured in Northern Kansas in the autumnof 1894 (Fig. 5). It comes from the famous quarrywhich has supplied several museums with more or lesscomplete collections. From various accounts, andespecially from our own observations, it appears that thisquarry represents an old bone bed, probably the depositof some stream or small river, along which the rhin-oceroses herded in great numbers. Our party secured hereover 400 complete bones, representing mingled remainsof both sexes and of all sizes. Only in certain spotswas the pro.\imity of one specimen to another found tobe a proof of association. By careful study of suchoccasional associations and selection of bones represent-ing only the largest and oldest individuals, a skeletonwa
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