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France. Very lately, new and more extensive researches have 

 been carried on by the same gentleman ; and the results already 

 obtained possess a high degree of importance for the science of 

 Paleontology. Farther discoveries may still be anticipated, for, 

 at the suggestion of Messrs Arago, Blainville, and other distin- 

 guished members of the French Academy of Sciences, assistance 

 has been offered by the Academy to enable M. Lartet to prose- 

 cute his investigations. The fossil bones, which belong to no 

 less than thirty species of mammiferous animals, have been 

 chiefly found in two deposits, viz. in the sands and sandstone of 

 the upper tertiary formation of Simorre, Tournon, Lombez, 

 &c., and in the lacustrine deposit of Sansan. The remains ob- 

 tained from these two deposits form two groups, differing mate- 

 rially from each other. In the Simorre deposit there have been 

 found two species of Dinotherium, probably similar to the spe- 

 cies determined by M. Kaup under the names D. giganteum and 

 D. secundarium ; several species of Mastodon, amounting pro- 

 bably to five in number, and of which one is new ; three species 

 of rhinoceros ; a small Pachydermatous animal ; a small deer ; 

 and, finally, a large ruminating animal, which must have mea- 

 sured six feet in height to the shoulder. We must give a some- 

 what more detailed account of the other group of remains, or 

 that occurring at Sansan. The Dinotherium does not occur; 

 mastodons are rare ; rhinoceroses are found abundantly, but not 

 of the same species as at Simorre. The rhinoceroses of Sansan 

 belong to three species, and would seem to have had no horns. 

 One Palaeotherium occurs, and is larger than the P. medium of 

 Montmartrc, resembling rather the P. aurelianense. The extre- 

 mities of this palseotherium are very like those of the horse. 

 With this animal there lived a large anDplotherium, not inferior 

 in size to our rhinoceros. There are also remains of another 

 small Pachydermatous animal, whose molar teeth approach some- 

 what in form those of the anthracotherium. Bones of rumi- 

 nating animals abound at Sansan, and belong to three species of 

 deer, an antelope, and another very small species. M. Lartet 

 has also found in the same deposit a gigantic carnivorous ani- 

 mal, a true dog, a large cat, and an animal like a weasel, a small 

 hare, and a very large Edentate quadruped. But the most im- 

 portant of M Lartefs discoveries was that of a jaw, of which 



