MISCELLANEOUS 



FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Mammaliology. 



1. MR. CUVIER (of Paris), to whom we are 

 indebted for so much important information relative 

 to the discovery and history of the vestiges, or im- 

 pressions, of various species of quadrupeds, and other 

 mammalia, of which the living representatives are no 

 longer seen, has lately discovered, in the gypseous 

 quarries in the vicinity of Paris, the vestiges of a 

 species of Didelphis, or Opossum, unlike any of 

 those that are now known to naturalists. This dis- 

 covery is the more important, inasmuch as Europe 

 does not, at this time, possess a native species of the 

 genus Didelphis, nor of any of the other genera more 

 immediately related to it. Nor have we any good 



