. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Botany; Zoology; Geology. 188 Mr. Lyell on Fossil Teeth in the Suffolk Crag. "1. Bear.—The crown of the tooth of a species of C/r^?^^. It is the antepenultimate molar^ right side^ upper jaw. The fos- sil indicates a species about the size of the common European bear, but not identical with that or any other existing species. It is smaller than the two large species of bear from the Ger- man bone caverns. I have not the means of comparing it with the smaller extinct species described by Goldfuss. " 2. Hog.—The external incisor of a young H
. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Botany; Zoology; Geology. 188 Mr. Lyell on Fossil Teeth in the Suffolk Crag. "1. Bear.—The crown of the tooth of a species of C/r^?^^. It is the antepenultimate molar^ right side^ upper jaw. The fos- sil indicates a species about the size of the common European bear, but not identical with that or any other existing species. It is smaller than the two large species of bear from the Ger- man bone caverns. I have not the means of comparing it with the smaller extinct species described by Goldfuss. " 2. Hog.—The external incisor of a young Hog: the tooth Fig. 2. aba b 4 Recent. Fossil. Incisor of Hog. a a. View of tooth from the inside. b b. View of tooth from the outside. belongs to the low^er jaw, right side, and very closely resem- bles the corresponding tooth of a young wild boar. (See fig. 2.) " 3. Ruminant.—Fragments of a fractured molar of a Ru- minant as large as the ; The fossil teeth above described, like the tooth of the leo- pard, are all of them more or less broken and worn. We know not whether they were procured from the fissures or the regular strata of the large Newbourn pit, but I confess that, judging from their appearance, I incline to the opinion that they are all of the age of the red crag. They seem to have imdergone precisely the same process of trituration, and to have been impregnated with the same colouring matter, as some of the associated bones and teeth of fishes which we know to have been derived from the regular strata of red crag. Had these mammalian remains been simply washed into fissures formed subsequently, we might have expected them to be in a differ- ent state from the crag fossils. It is true that in the forma- tion last mentioned, throughout its range in the counties of Suffolk and Essex, no vestige of a terrestrial quadruped had previously been met with; but I may remind the reader that Mr. Wood found in the red crag of Butley, about seven miles no
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