COMMON ANOPLOTHERE. 437 
Whilst the evidence of the Anoplotherium in the eocene 
strata of the Isle of Wight was the single specimen of a 
molar tooth in the collection of Mr. Allan, some doubts were 
entertained of the accuracy of its assigned locality. These 
were, however, entirely dissipated by the subsequent in- 
teresting memoir on the remains of the Anoplotherium and 
Paleotherium in the lower freshwater formation of Bin- 
stead, near Ryde, by S. P. Pratt, Esq., F.G.S.* I have 
since received many corroborative instances of different 
species of both these kinds of ancient Pachyderms, from 
the eocene deposits in Hampshire, of which the teeth 
figured in cuts 176, 177, and 178, are examples. 
To the professed naturalist, the following definitions, 
applied by Cuvier to the extinct Pachyderms of the Paris 
basin, according to the Linnaan forms in reference to ex- 
isting animals, must give the most striking evidence of the 
power of reconstruction of lost species by the application 
to their fossil remains of the law of organic correlations. 
‘“* Genus ANOPLOTHERIUM. 
Dentes 44. Serie continua. 
Primores utrinque 6. 
Laniarii primoribus similes, ceteris non longiores. 
Molares 28, utrinque 7. Anteriores compressi. 
Posteriores superiores quadrati, inferiores 
bilunati. 
Palme et plante didactyle, ossibus metacarpi et 
metatarsi discretis, digitis accessoriis in qui- 
busdam. 
1. A. commune. Statura Asini minoris, cauda cor- 
poris longitudine, crassissima, habitu elongato 
Lutre. Verisimiliter natatorius. 
* ¢ Geological Transactions,’ 2nd Series, vol. ii. p. 451. 
+ See ‘ Geological Transactions,’ 2nd Series, vol. yi. p. 41. 
