XII. Further note on the remains of elephas cypriotes from a cave-deposit in Cyprus

Abstract

Previous to 1901, no systematic search of the cave deposits of Cyprus appears to have been attempted. The geology was studied by M. Albert Gaudry, who published in 1862 an elaborate work with a geological map, and Drs. Unger and Kotschy, in 1865, also gave a geological map of the island, differing somewhat from that of their predecessor. As long ago as 1700 the Dutch traveller Corneille le Brun (Van Bruyn), published an account of his wanderings in Cyprus and the Levant, and mentions having visited a bed of bones, believed to be those of saints, not far from the Monastery of Haghios Chrysostomos. A drawing of one of these bones is given which Dr. Forsyth Major has since shown to be that of Hippoptamus minutus .