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dermata, are placed the bones of carnivora, the 

 didelphis and the rodentia ; and that the fossils 

 from the plaster quarries of Paris may not be 

 separated, we here see the remains of birds, 

 tortoises, crocodiles and fishes, which are found 

 there mingled with those of mammalia. Lastly, 

 we find the palaeotheria, foreign to the soil of 

 Paris, the greater number of which are from the 

 neighbourhood of Orleans. 



After these bones from the quarries near Paris, 

 we remark the remains of ruminantia and roden- 

 tia, found in alluvial formations or in the bony brec- 

 cia on the shores of the Mediterranean. Amongst 

 the former, several are from the neighbourhood 

 of Abbeville, and were collected by M.Traulle and 

 M. Baillon, correspondent of the Museum : others 

 are from America. Amongst the latter we must 

 remark a model in plaster of part of the skull of an 

 aurochs, which must have been of a prodigious size. 

 This model was sent to the Museum by M. Peale. 

 We should here speak of two heads of a gigantic 

 species of elk from the peat bogs of Ireland, which 

 we see over each door of this room, one of which 

 was presented by the trustees of the British mu- 

 seum, the other by colonel Thornton ; and of the 

 head of a large ox, placed above the last mentioned 

 cases, which was found in the peat bogs of Ar- 

 pajon, and given by M. le comte Dumanoir. 



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