£04 Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 
poses it to be the first that was invented; but it does net 
appear how it can be reckoned of that kind.—T.S.E. 
THE following is the opinion given ef this watch by the 
French "Academy. of Sciences at their public sitting the 5th 
of April 1769: 
“¢ The Academy has adjudged the prize to the memoir 
which has for its device Lalor improlus omnia vincit, and to 
the watch that accompanies this memoir. The author of 
both of them is M. Le Roy, clock-maker to his majesty. 
The rate of M. Le Roy’s watch, observed at sea in several 
voyages (one of which was fromthe coast of France to New- 
foundland, and from Newfoundland to Cadiz) has appeared 
in general sufhciently regular to merit this reward for the 
author, the principal intention of which is to encourage him 
to new researches; for the Academy must not dissemble, 
that in one of the observations which have been made on this 
watch, it appeared, even while on land, to gain rather sud- 
denly 11 or 12 seconds per day: from which it appears that 
the desired degree of perfection has not yet been obtained.” 
XXXIV, Memoir upon living and fossil Etephants. By 
M. Cuvirr. 
[Continued from p. 169.] 
Tae fossil elephants of Belgium have been long known. 
In the 16th century Garopius Becanus combated the pre- 
judices which attributed to giants the large fossil bones for- 
merly found in the neighbourhood of Antwerp; and he men- 
tions the bones of two elephants dug up near Vilvorde, in a 
canal which the inhabitants of Brussels dug from that city 
to Rupelmonde, to avoid the trouble attending the convey- 
ances by the canals of Malines. 
John Lauerentzen, in his edition of the Museum Regis 
Danie of Jacobeus, parti. § 1. no, 73, relates the history 
of a skeleton which Otho Sperling saw dug up at Bruges 
yn 1643, the thigh of which is preserved in the above cabinet. 
Tt is four feet jong, and weighs 24 pounds, 
" M. de Burtin, in chap. i. § 2. p. 25. of his Prize Dis- 
sertation 
