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nial, which might have approximated to the tapir, and which he calls the 

 large fossil tapir. % Plate XXI. Fig. 3, is the outline of the fossil tooth of 

 this gigantic animal, found at St. Lary, in Couserans, copied from M. Cu- 

 vier's engraving,, PL II. Fig. 7, Ann. du Mm. Toms III, 



FOSSIL PACHYDERMATA OF THE ENVIRONS OF PARIS ....PAUEO- 



THERIUM MAGNUM, MEDIUM, CRASSUM, MINUS ANOPLOTHE- 



RIUM COMMUNE, MEDIUM, MINUS, MINIMUM ..UNDETERMINED^ 

 ANIMAL OF ORLEANS. 



1 SHALL, with great pleasure, show you, in the present Letter, that 

 the unceasing and ingeniously directed lahours of Cuvier have been 

 rewarded, by the discovery of the fossil remains of two genera of pachy- 

 dermata, containing seven or eight different species, the analogues of 

 which are at present entirely unknown. To one of these he has given 

 the name of Palaotkerium, or ancient large animal or beast ; and to the 

 other, Anoplotherium, or beast without weapons, thereby implying its 

 distinguishing character, its want of canine teeth. 



Much of this information was yielded him by the teeth alone ; but, in 

 addition to these, he became possessed of other different bones of these 

 animals, and particularly of the bones of the feet, by which the conjec- 

 tures which he had already formed, respecting the nature of these animals, 

 obtained a considerable degree of confirmation : but as he had found the 

 heads belonging to two genera, one with and the other without canine 

 teeth ; so he also found the feet of two genera, one with three complete; 

 toes, and the other with two. 



