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number of localities in northern Italy, in Hanover, and in southern 

 France (Provence), while the nuts found associated with the Swiss 

 lake dwellings were undoubtedly obtained from wild trees of the 

 i mmedi a te nei ghborhood. 



The manner in which the fossils enable us to obtain a vista into 

 the life of bygone days is furnished by recent discoveries in the 

 Egyptian desert. At a time (latest Eocene or earliest Oligocene) 

 when Libya was separated from Europe and Asia by a vast Mediter- 



