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burgh, those from Buchswciler in the department 

 of Bas-Rhin. The femur and ribs which are still 

 incrusted with calcareous stone, and which are 

 contained in a glazed box placed above the cases, 

 were presented by M. Boirot Desserviers, phy- 

 sician at the mineral waters of Neris ; they come 

 from Gannat in Bourbonnais : they probably be- 

 long to a very large lophiodon ; the same may 

 be said of another femur found in Auvergne, and 

 given by M. Lacoste. 



After these lophiodons we observe three glazed 

 boxes full of teeth and other bones of gigantic 

 tapirs, also found in France. Some come from 

 Chevilly, near Orleans, and were given by 

 M. Rousseau of Etampes ; others were collected 

 at Carla-le-Comte in the department of Arriege, 

 by M. Lourde-Seillans, and were sent by M. de 

 Mortarieu, prefect of that department. They 

 are followed by the remains of the antracothe- 

 rium, recently discovered in the coalmines of 

 Cadibona, a new genus of the pachydermata, a 

 family which seems to have lost more than all the 

 others together : they were sent by M. Laffin and 

 M. Borson of Turin. 



We here commence the very curious series of 

 fossil bones found in the quarries of gypsum in 

 the environs of Paris, and which M. Cuvier has 

 discovered to belong to lost genera, differing 



