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Lophiodon minimus have been procured from Bracklesham Bay ; but the 
remains of land mammals ought not to be expected from this locality, as 
the fossils are those which principally belong to the lower portion of the 
Eocene period or nearest the Chalk. So numerous are the remains of 
these extinct Pachydermata from the gypsum quarries of Montmartre, 
which may be chiefly considered of freshwater origin, that Cuvier has 
observed, “‘ every block contains the fragment of some skeleton,” and 
after many years collecting, adds this most interesting paragraph in 
his ‘ Ossemens Fossiles,’ tom. i. Introduction, pp. 3, 4 :— 
“TI at length found myself, as if placed in a charnel-house, sur- 
rounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred skeletons, of more 
than twenty kinds of animals piled confusedly around me: the task 
assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At 
the voice of Comparative Anatomy, every bone, and fragment of a 
bone resumed its place. I cannot find words to express the pleasure 
I experienced in seeing, as I discovered one character, how all the 
consequences which I predicted from it were successively confirmed : 
the feet were found in accordance with the characters announced by 
the teeth ; the teeth in harmony with those indicated beforehand by 
the feet: the bones of the legs and thighs, and every connecting 
portion of the extremities, we found set together precisely as I had 
arranged them, before my conjectures were verified by the discovery 
of the parts entire: in short, each species was, as it were, recon- 
structed from a single one of its component elements.” 
The researches of Cuvier and Professor Owen have justly placed 
the study of Comparative Anatomy as the highest branch of Paleon- 
tology. The geologist must not however neglect Conchology, as the 
evidence produced by the remains of shells is more frequent, and 
shells afford more certainty that the animals they belonged to lived 
where they are found. 
Geological inquiry bas unfolded some of the most beautiful as well 
