VIII.— The Genus Hyracotherium . A revision and description of new specimens found in England

Abstract

Professor Teilhard de Chardin (1927)* has called attention to the need of a revision of the British specimens of the genus Hyracotherium . As far back as the year 1901, Depéret also made a statement that there exist “interprétations diverses et parfois inexactes relativement aux charactères au limites des genres,” and that “ces divergences provenaient soit d’une fausse interprétation des types, soit de l’état encore incomplet des documents sur quelques-unes de ces formes animales.” The present account of the very few known English specimens of Hyracotherium has been undertaken in an endeavour to fulfil Professor Teilhard de Chardin’s request and, further, to record details of a specimen in the collection of the Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge and some new material recently acquired by the British Museum (Natural History), none of which has been so far described.