25o DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



5th. Some large fish discovered in France in 

 that species of secondary limestone called gry- 

 phite stone. We also observe a species of elops, 

 which comes from Grandmont, near Beaune, in 

 the department of Cote d'Or, and a species of 

 carp sent from Elbe, in the department of Avey- 

 ron, by M. Pacat. 



6th. Some sharks' teeth and palates of rays 

 from the chalk formations. 



yth. Various impressions from Aichstaedt in 

 Franconia, from mount Lebanon in Syria, and 

 the tertiary formations in the neighbourhood of 

 Paris. 



8th. Some impressions on the foliated bitumen 

 called dusodile. They were presented by M. de 

 Humboldt, and were collected near Rott, three 

 leagues from Bonn, on the right bank of the Rhine. 



gth. Lastly, the magnificent suite of fossil fish 

 from Monte Bolca, collected by the count Gazola, 

 of whom the government bought it for the Mu- 

 seum in 1798. It is composed of more than four 

 hundred specimens belonging to a great variety 

 of species. Drawings and descriptions of them 

 are given in the great work entitled Ittiolitologia 

 P^eronese, printed at Yerona in 1796, large folio. 



The fossil bones of quadrupeds, birds, and rep- 

 tiles occupy the twelve glazed cases opposite the 

 windows. The space not allowing of a geolo- 



