116 GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



the scientific world was directed to the fossil 

 mammalia found in the gypseous marls of Mont- 

 martre, in consequence of the extraordinary in- 

 terest with which the late Baron Cuvier invested 

 them, British geologists were sanguine in their 

 anticipations of discovering traces of these extinct 

 animals in the freshwater strata of England. But 

 not a relic of this kind was found till some years 

 after the appearance of the " Geograph. Min. des 

 Environs de Paris." The first evidence of the 

 occurrence of the extinct pachyderms of Paris in 

 the British strata was obtained by Mr. Thomas 

 Allan, of Edinburgh, who found a lower molar 

 tooth of an Anoplotherium in a quarry at Binstead.* 

 In 1830 Mr. Pratt discovered teeth and bones of 

 Anoplotheriitm, Palccotherium, and Dichobune, in 

 the same quarries ;-j- up to the present time, eight 

 species, belonging to four genera, have been dis- 

 covered in the strata near Ryde. At Headon 

 Hill a tooth and some bones have been found by 

 Mr. Prestwich ; and from the freshwater beds at 

 Hordwell Cliff, on the Hampshire coast, the re- 

 searches of Mr. Searles Wood have recently 



* This specimen was figured and described by Dr. Auckland, in the Annals 

 of Philosophy, 1825. 



| " Remarks on the Existence of the Anoplotherium and Palaeotherium in 

 the Freshwater Formation at Iiit.stead;" by Samuel Peace Pratt, Esq. F.R.8. 

 Trans, vol. iii. New Si 



