258 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



It is a curious fact, that the breccia of Gibraltar, 

 Cette, Nice, Corsica, Pisa, Naples, Romagnano in 

 the Vicentine, Dalmatia, and the island of Cerigo, 

 all contain the same bones and present the same 

 appearance, which leads us to suppose that they 

 were formed at the same time and in the same 

 manner, although at great distances from each 

 other. 



A little further are the fossil bones of the car- 

 nivora, which are found lying on the ground, and 

 sometimes only covered with a very thin bed of 

 stalactite, in the caverns of Germany, Hungary 

 and England. The greater number of these bones 

 belong to bears of a larger species than those 

 now existing. The other carnivora, w r hich are 

 less numerous, belong to the genera of the cat, 

 hysena, and wolf. 



Near these boxes are two canine teeth of a 

 tiger; one found at Paris in digging a well, and 

 given by M. de Bourienne, the other at Abbeville, 

 and sent by M. Baillon; which shew, that at the 

 period when elephants and rhinoceroses inha- 

 bited our countries, the larger species of carni- 

 vora, which prevented their too rapid propaga- 

 tion, also lived with them, as the tigers and lions 

 now accompany these enormous animals in Asia 

 and Africa. 



Then come plaster casts of different bones of 



