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lege, exhibited a tooth of a new species of Lophiodon (a tapir- 

 like animal), from the miocene marl of Cumberland County, 

 New Jersey, which is the first indication of the remains of 

 the tapir family on the Atlantic coast, or of the genus Lo- 

 p>hiodon in this country east of the Rocky Mountain region. 

 This species, which was named Lophiodon validus, was prob- 

 ably a contemporary of the Rhinoceros matutiniis, described 

 by Professor Marsh, from remains found at the same geolog- 

 ical horizon in Monmouth County New Jersey. 



POET KENNEDY BONE CAVE. 



The discovery of an ancient bone cave near Phcenixville, 

 Pennsylvania, about twenty-five miles northwest of Phila- 

 delphia, has excited the greatest interest among naturalists. 

 Professor Cope has been actively engaged in the investiga- 

 tion of the collection, and already reports the existence of 

 about thirty species of vertebrates, together with numerous 

 plants and insects. All of these, so far as known, are probably 

 of extinct species, although their precise relationships have 

 not yet been fully worked out. Among the reptiles were tor- 

 toises and serpents, and of birds there was a turkey and a 

 snipe. The mammals, as Professor Cope anticipated, were 

 most numerous, these including two carnivorous animals of 

 large size, one of them a cat, and the other a bear, previously 

 described by Dr. Leidy, of a remarkable type, and totally dis- 

 tinct from the cave bear, or any living species of either Eu- 

 rope or America. At least three species of sloths were discov- 

 ered, mostly of gigantic size, one of them a species of 3Iega- 

 lonyx, and two of the Mylodon. Besides these there were 

 some ruminating animals, tapirs, and a small horse. With 

 the other remains were the teeth and tusks of the mastodon. 

 The fissure in which the bones were found was forty feet deep 

 and fifteen feet wide ; the length as yet has not been deter- 

 mined. Above the deposit of bones the cave was filled with 

 washings of the triassic age from the neighboring hills. 



PORT KENNEDY BONE CAVE AGAIN. 



In the recently published proceedings of the American Phil- 

 osophical Society we find a more detailed account than has 

 yet appeared of the contents of the remarkable post-pliocene 

 bone cave of Port Kennedy, near Philadelphia, of which we 



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