M. Meyer's Notice of some Fossil Remains, <§-c. 165 



wise distributed through the rest of the rocks belonging to the 

 same formation. Both the kakoxene and the wavellite seem 

 to have been produced by some secondary process of secretion 

 within the mass of the rocks. 



I have given the new mineral the name of kakoxene, from 

 xaxbg bad, and %'mg a guest, in allusion to the bad influence of 

 the phosphoric acid, and consequently also of the mineral in 

 question, on the quality of the iron extracted from the ore with 

 which it occurs. 



Aht. XXXV. — Notice of some. Fossil Remains of' a Paleothe- 

 rium, found in Bavaria* By Hermann von Meyer, of 

 Frankfort, on the Maine. 



Among a number of organic remains from Friedrichsgeinund, 

 in the neighbourhood of Roth in Bavaria, I possess two frag- 

 ments of the lower jaw of that rare species of Paleotherium, 

 which has been hitherto found only in a few fragments in the 

 vicinity of Orleans ; each of them including an intermediate 

 molar tooth. The form of these teeth agrees exactly with 

 Fig. 13 of Cuvier's Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles t 

 Nouv. Ed. t. iii. pi. lxvii., which had been communicated to 

 him by Bigot de Morogues of Orleans. Another fragment of 

 a lower jaw, partly included in limestone, contains two inter- 

 mediate molar teeth, similar to the preceding ones; and a 

 fourth, the hindmost molar tooth, which is again similar to 

 the right hand Fig. 14 of the same plate. I possess four up- 

 per molar teeth, three of them detached from the jaw. The 

 11th figure of Cuvier's shows the remarkable construction of 

 these upper molar teeth. 



The genus Paleotherium is intermediate between those of 

 Rhinoceros and Tapir. About twelve species have been dis- 

 tinguished, which are chiefly found in the gypsum of Paris. 

 The species, in most respects, deviating from the common 

 type, is that found at Montabusard, near Orleans, in fresh- 

 water limestone, but it agrees, on the contrary, with that of 

 Issel. All its peculiar characters are found in the teeth from 



* Translated from Kastner's Archivfnr die Naturlehre, B. vii. St. 2. 



