The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-13

been more like a tiger and suggested the authority of Owen. This is what the great naturalist says about the gave Honor tiger;-
 .'It is too commonly supposed that the lion, the tiger and the jaguar are animals peculiarly adapted to a trop.- ical' climate. The genus feIis is, how eXers represented by species in hfgf. northern attitudes and all intermed- fate countries to the equator There is no genus of nlanl4nalia in which tlIs unity of organization is more closely maintained and in which therefore we firsd so little ground for inferring in the structure of the species it's spe- elai adaptation to a warm climate. It need not, therefore, excite surprise that indications should have been dis covered in the fossil relics of the an ciesnt mamnlalian popuIation of Eur ope of a. large feline animal, contan, porary of the TnamIaotl1s of the ti chorrine rhipoceros and Of the gigan- tic cave bear and sllyena and the slayer of, the oxen, deer and equine quadrupeds that were abundant dur ing the same.epoch.sss
 Dr. Smith Woodward and Dr. An drews refuse to~ assign any date to the remains. They belong to the pleis- tocene period-that is .ceqtai1l,-fs7t when that period began and when 1t ended is a matter of speculation.
 Previous discoveries only about 30 yards away, were made in 1908 in the course of excavations for the install atfon of new machines for Ldeyd's Weekly News. Bones of extinct anil naals were unearthed, including a. very fine skull of the woody rhinocer- os, together with part of it's lower jaw and portions of the leg bone The continuation of the excavatfons led at various times to further dis coveries which add considerably to kH,.-r | xr.,.Sr
 .cality in pleistocene times
 In addition to further remains of the rhinoceNoss bones of the nam moth, the reindeer, the horse and the great extinct OK were found. CThe woody lrhinoceros is represented by many bones and especially by a. beau tifully complete skull of a young in dividual in which the milk teeth were still in use, and the back molars, or wisdom teeth, not yet cut. c.
 By an extraordinary chance the sec ond half of the lower jaw, found in 1903. was recovered this year in the Daily Chronicle excavations described in the foregoing, and the two are now reunited at South Kensington where in. the natural history depart ment of the museum all these speci- mems are exhibited. The mammoth is represented by fine Slower jaw and parts Of a skuH with the teeth in a ANeNSO extinct OK and the horse are repre- scented by numerous odd bones.
 In an instructive account of the re- mains of the rhfnoceros F. B. Bed dard, F. R. S., identified 1t with the Siberian rhin noceros, several well pre- served specimens of which are to be seen in the St. Petersburg museum. There now remains MT. Beddard wrote, 'fthe question: What was a Siberian and continental rhinoceros doing in this island? Geology removes from us this difficulty. During the pc riod of the earth's history which saw these great veasts grazing on the plains of northern Europe and Asia this island was not yet divorced from the continent; the Thames flowed over what is now the Dogger bank to join the Rhine, of which it was probably an affluent-or, to put it more patriot icaIly, the Rhine was in those days a tributary to the Thames. The Siber- ian rhinoceros had. therefore, no difficulty in extending it's range to Britain, and there is abundant evi- dence of it's occurrence in various parts of these islands. It has been found ear Oxford, in caves at York shire. and at Torquay, and at a. va riety of other spots,