On the domestic pig of prehistoric times in Britain, and on the mutual relations of this variety of pig and Sus scrofa ferus, Sus cristatus, Sus andamanensis, and Sus barbatus / by George Rolleston.
- George Rolleston
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the domestic pig of prehistoric times in Britain, and on the mutual relations of this variety of pig and Sus scrofa ferus, Sus cristatus, Sus andamanensis, and Sus barbatus / by George Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[Extractedfrom the Liknean Societt’s JoT^iprAL—ZoOLdsTt-^ Tol. xiii.] ■ S. 3 c ■ * ON THE f 1'. ' . 35-1 ; CK'{ /«=?/ . / PEEHISTOEIC BRITISH SUS. BY PEOEE8SOE G. EOLLESTON, F.E.S., F.L.S., etc. (Abstract.) This memoir will be printed in the Society’s Transactions in full. The following specimens were exhibited at the Meeting :—1. Sknll of 8. scrofa, var. domesticus, from a late Celtic interment. 2. Skulls of 8. scrofa^ 'v&v.feo'us, from alluvium near Oxford and from Germany. 3. Skull of 8. andamanensis, forwarded to the Author by J. Wood Mason. 4. Skull of 8. cristatus, lent by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I. 5. Skull of 8. larlatus, wrongfully named 8. verrucosus, and needlessly Euhys harhatus in some mam- malogical catalogues. Upon these and other data the author bases the subjoined con- clusions :— 1. The domesticated pig of pre-Eoraan times, at least as exemplified by the specimens from the interment referred to, ap- pears to resemble 8. scrofa, vox.ferus, rather than 8. cristatus or the domestic variety, 8. indicus. 2. On the other hand, N. cristatus, the Indian wild hog, appears to him, whilst being readily and always distinguishable from 8. scrofa, var. ferus, to differ from it mainly by the retention perma- nently of certain structural conformations which were only tem- porarily represented in the European wild species. The third molars of the male 8. cristatus varied, however, concomitantly witli its canines, and showed a much larger development of their posterior lobe than either 8. scrofa, var. ferus, or the females of their own species. The rearmost lobe, however, of the posterior](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22463471_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
