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a skull of Ovibos moschatus preserved in the Museum of Berlin, and which Mr. 

 Quenstedt had determined in the year 1836 ; hut I have failed, even with the 

 indications given by Sir Charles Lyell, to find the description of this skull. 



In 1859 Professor Hubert communicated to me a molar tooth found by the 

 Abbe Lambert in the Diluvium of the Oise at Viry-Noureuil, near Chauny (Aisne), 

 in association with remains of Elephas antiquus and E. priniigenius, Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus, Hycena, a small Bear, Reindeer, &c.* This tooth I ascertained to be 

 a molar of Ovibos moschatus. 



In 1863 Professor E. E. Schmid, of the University of Jena, described, under the 

 name of Bos Pallasii (De Kay), a portion of skull of the same species discovered 

 in 1862 in the ancient alluvium of the Saal f. 



In 1864 Dr. Eugene Robert sent me a very fine piece of the skull of Ovibos 

 moschatus discovered by him in the Diluvium of the Oise at Precy, near Creil 

 (Oise), in the same spot where he had collected the remains of an Elephant's tusk. 

 I announced this discovery to the Academy of Sciences at its sitting on the 27th 

 of June ; and I addressed to the Geological Society of London an extract from my 

 communication, with a plate, in which were figured this skull and the molar teeth 

 found at Viry by the Abbe Lambert |. 



Further researches at one of our Stations in the Gorge d'Enfer (Dordogne) 

 have produced a hoof-phalange exactly identical, both in form and dimensions, 

 with the corresponding bone of the existing Ovibos moschatus (Bos moschatus 

 auct.). It was found, in association with remains of the Great Cave-Bear (Ursus 

 spelcsus), Lion (Felis spelcea], Wolf, Reindeer, and Aurochs. 



[Since this paper was communicated to the Geological Society, the author has 

 discovered, among the fossil remains of the same Station in the Gorge d'Enfer, 

 seven new bones of a hind leg and foot of Ovibos moschatus the long and mar- 

 rowed bones being split and broken, like those of the other Herbivora used for 

 food by the ancient indigenous tribes of Perigord.] 



It is to be noted that in the three localities where the bones of Ovibos mos- 

 chatus have been observed in France, there have been also gathered the products 

 of human industry. 



At Viry-Noureuil worked flints were found by the Abbe Lambert, of which two 

 specimens were sent to London. At Precy was found, in 1860, an axe of the 

 St.-Acheul type, which was presented to the Geological Society of France by 



* Ann. des Sc. Nat. 8vo, 4 e se'r. Zool. vol. xv. p. 224. 

 f Leonhard und Bronn's 'Neues Jahrbuch,' 1863, p. 541. 

 Comptes Rendus de 1'Acad. des Soi., Seance 27 Juin 1864. 



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