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American Journal of Science and Arts, for March, 1846, by 

 Prof. Carpenter ; but no elephant remains are there de- 

 scribed, though other fossils from the same locality are 

 noticed. 



The President remarked that he was surprised when Sir 

 John originally made the statement alluded to, because 

 efforts had been made to find the cranium of the Mammoth 

 in America without success. The structure of the summit 

 of the cranium is much more cellular in the Mammoth than 

 in any other species of Elephant or in the Mastodon, and 

 for this reason it is much more liable to decay. Portions of 

 the lower jaw and teeth of the Mammoth have been found 

 in America, but no cranium. 



The President exhibited a cast of the head of the great 

 Spelaean Bear. This fossil bear was discovered a iew years 

 ago in caverns in Germany, and afterwards in England and 

 in Belgium, near Liege. Bones of other animals, and even 

 of men, have been found with them, and it has been a ques- 

 tion if the human bones were fossil or recent. The greater 

 number of naturalists now believe them to be of comparatively 

 modern origin. The skull of the Spelaean bear is much 

 longer, in proportion to its width, than the skull of the living 

 American species, from the State of Maine, with which the 

 specimen was compared. Its teeth are not so fully deve- 

 loped, and there are found, in the space between the molars 

 and cuspidati, no premolars ; whereas, in the other species, 

 there are one and sometimes two premolars. Hence it may 

 be inferred that the Cave bear lived probably on vegetable 

 rather than animal food. 



Dr. Gould presented '• A Paper on the Orange Insect,^' 

 drawn up from Notes made by the late Dr. W. I. Burnett. 



Dr. Gould observed, that during the winter of 1853-4, the 

 last which Dr. Burnett spent in Florida, our laniented associate 



