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ncnt. Those of America are all from the southern 

 part of that continent, and \vere collected by 

 Dombey and M. de Humboldt ; the others were 

 found in different parts of Europe, but princi- 

 pally in France. Amongst the latter are those 

 discovered at Simorrc in the department of Gers, 

 formerly employed in making what was called 

 occidental turquoise. 



Then follows a collection of fossil bones of 

 the hippopotamus, almost all from the upper 

 Vale of Arno, and brought by M. Cuvier in 1810 

 and i8i3. The two thigh bones are very re- 

 markable for their preservation ; the remains of 

 several species of hippopotamus, much smaller 

 than the preceding, are not less so : they are in 

 the two glazed boxes next to those of which 

 we have just spoken. One of these species was 

 found between Dax and Tartas in the department 

 of the Landes ; a second comes from a calcareous 

 stratum near Blaye in the department of the Gi- 

 ronde, it was given by M. Jouannet ; a third from 

 Saint-Michel de Chaisine in the department of 

 Maine and Loire, given by M. Dubuisson, keeper 

 of the cabinet at Nantes. 



Next follow the teeth and bones of horses, 

 the greater number found in France, accompany- 

 ing those of elephants and rhinoceroses. 



After these bones are placed those of the rhi- 



