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noceros, several of which have also been dug 

 up in France : such as a considerable portion of 

 a skull found in the environs of Figeac, given by 

 M. Delpon, and different bones from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Abbeville, for which the Museum 

 is indebted to MM. Fraulle and Baillon: here is 

 also an entire head of a blackish brown colour, 

 given by the reverend M. Buckland, professor 

 of geology at Oxford. But what is still more 

 worthy of remark is a glazed box containing 

 rhinoceros bones of a very small size, found at a 

 very considerable depth; they were given by 

 the baron de Tours, mayor of Moissac. Two 

 drawings of heads of rhinoceroses from Siberia, 

 also sent by the academy of St. Petersburgh are 

 placed above the first cases offish, and by the side 

 of those of the elephant. 



"We next come to the bones of a genus nearly 

 related to the tapir, to which M. Cuvier has given 

 the name of lophiodon. They are contained in 

 several glazed boxes, each of which holds the 

 different species coming from a particular spot. 



On examining these boxes we find that this 

 new genus comprehends a number of species 

 found hitherto only in France. M. Bollinat pre- 

 sented those dug up in the neighbourhood of 

 Argenton in the department of the Indre, and 

 M. Hammer, professor of natural history at Stras- 



