164 Memoir upon living:and fossil Elephants. 
four pieces of it in our museum, which are very much al- 
tered. Some bones were also found at Rome since 1664, 
in digging some foundations at the entrance of the Vatican. 
Thomas Bartholin speaks of even prior discoveries made at 
Rome *; and it is probable that the supposed body of Evan- 
der, found in 1041 or 1054+, was nothing else than ele- 
phants’ bones. 
M. Charles Louis inboane gives a dea of a jaw- 
bone found in April 1862 in a  vineya tl without the gate 
Del Popolo, with several other fragments of bones and ivory, 
Bonanni speaks of several large’bones, teeth, and lower jaws, 
dug up in‘his time near a castle named Guidi, on the Aure~ 
lian Way, twelve miles from Rome §.- 
The vale of Arno seems to abound with fossil bones. The 
grand duke Ferdinand.of Medicis had-an entire skeleton dug 
up in 1663 in the plain of Arezzo. 
Doctor Tatgioni Tozetti deposited in the musenm at Flo- 
rence a humerus found in the caves near the upper valley of 
Arno, and'to which oysters were attached. 
Dolomieu says that the elephant:bones of the vale of Arno 
are found at the bottom of hillocks:of argil which fill the 
intervals of the calcareous strata; that the beds which con- 
tain them are filled with pieces‘of wood, some of them pe- 
trified and some bituminous, which‘he takes to be oak, and 
which are covered with beds of marine shells and immense 
banks of argil |v 
There isa remarkable depot of bones upon Mount Ser- 
baro, three Icagues from Verona: they seem to be those of 
several other animals besides elephants. 
Fortis has given a description of this Bepoe im his Natural 
History of Italy. 
Among the clephant bones there was a tusk more than 
_* De Unicornu. 
get Dom. Calmet, Dict. de la Bible, ii. 160. 
" $ Mem. de Ia Societé Stal. tom. z. p. 152; and Journal de Phys. tom. liv. 
p. 143. . 
§ Mus. Kircher. p. 200. 
| Journal de Physique, tom. txxix. p. 319 
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