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PALAOTHERIUM MINUS. = 
PALHZOTHERIUM MINUS. 
Or this elegant species, the freshwater eocene deposits 
of the Isle of Wight have furnished. several specimens 
more entire and better preserved than those of the larger 
Palzotheres. The collection submitted to my examina- 
nation by the Rev. Darwin Fox, in 1838,* included a 
portion of the base of the skull, the right ramus of the lower 
jaw with all the molars, except the first small spurious one 
(fig. 117), the proximal end of the right radius, and the 
shaft and distal end of the right tibia. 
Fig. 117. 
Portion of lower jaw, nat. size. Seafield, Isle of Wight. 
Mr. Wickham Flower, F.G.S., possesses the shaft and 
distal articular end of the humerus of a species of Palso- 
therium, of the size of P. crassum, which was obtained from 
the eocene clay at Hordwell Cliff, Hampshire: the spe- 
cimen is black and heavily impregnated with mineral 
matter. A lower molar tooth, of apparently the same 
species of Paleeothere, was discovered at the same place. 
A single incisor, apparently of the lower jaw of the 
Paleotherium medium, illustrates the identity in form and 
structure of the cutting teeth, as of the canines and molars 
of the species of the freshwater eocene deposits of the Isle 
* Geological Transactions, vol. vi., second series, p-» 41. 
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