244 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



occurs. This Catalogue lias been worked out \vitli great 

 industry, and, since the Geological Society of London has 

 twice assisted the author in preparing the present list by a 

 grant from the Woolastonian fund, we may thus be con- 

 vinced of its accuracy. 



Grateloup, Considerations generales sur la Geologic et la 

 Zoologie fossile de la commune de Leognan, pres Bordeaux. 

 (Actes de la Soc. Lin de Bordeaux, xi, pp. 335, 341.) 



In the mariue sandstone, a kind of mineral conglomerate, numerous bones 

 of large Turtles from tlie family Clielouia, vertebra? and ribs of Luge Ceta- 

 cea, Sharks' teeth of gigantic size, jaws of large Dolphins and Gavials, with 

 other Saurians, are found ; the Sqiialodon also occurs amongst them. The 

 formation is regarded as of marine orgin. The conglomerate of IVou- 

 sadais, on the coasts of Ille, is, on the contrary, a fresh-water deposit. In 

 it are found in abundance bones of terrestrial Mammalia and fresh-water 

 Reptiles, such as the Palaeotherium magnum, medium, crassum, and minus, with 

 different kinds of Emys and Trionyx. These bones are met with unassociated 

 with marine Mollusca, or the latter are but of rare occurrence ; neither 

 Cetacea or Sharks' teeth are to be found. At Salles the marine sandstone 

 contains very numerous fossil bones, as of Mastodon anyustidens and minutus, 

 along with bones of large Cetacea, as Whales, Dolphins, Lamantincs, and 

 such like animals. Here also the petrified (Immatile) skeleton of a human 

 being was discovered, yet was not truly fossil, seeing that it was enveloped 

 by mineral layers more recent than the marine formation, or by a kind of 

 travertine or calcareous concretion. At p. 149, vol. xiii, of the same jour- 

 nal, Pedroni announces the extraction, from the stone-pits or quarries of 

 Leoguau, of four Cetacean vertebrae, two fragments of Chelouian carapaces, 

 and a portion of a stag's antlers. The Reporter would take this opportunity 

 to mention that I\ Robert informs the Academy at Paris, that he has disco- 

 vered in calcareous marl from Alais fossil human bones (Institut., 1844. 

 p. 395), but that Marcel de Serres shortly afterwards pointed out that no 

 reliance could be placed in the spot where they were found. H. v. Meyer 

 has described the fossil bones from the tertiary formations of Serro de San 

 Isidore, near Madrid, as also those from the caves in Lahu-Thale (Jabrb. f. 

 Min., S. 289 and 431), and communicated further news concerning the fos- 

 sils of jEuingen, Weisenau, Monibach, Flombach, and Georgeusgmnnd, with 

 sundry other matters. (Jahrb., s. 329 arid 564.) 



King, in the ' Proceed, of the Acad. of Nat. Sciences at 

 Philadelphia/ 1844, p. 175, has increased, by several new 7 

 examples, the nominal stock of primo-muudaue footprints. 



