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jects most in its fore part, it is there suddenly truncated. It is only in 

 the genus Camel that an exception has been found, the fore and outer 

 angle of the spine being here prolonged into a true acromion ; and which 

 is, indeed, more strongly marked in the lama than in the camel and dro- 

 medary. This agreement with the camel in this respect, corresponding 

 with those resemblances which have been noticed in several other bones 

 of this genus, assist in determining this scapula to belong to the genus 

 Anoplotherium. 



Fragments of a pelvis obtained from this quarry, and which resembled, 

 in different points, that of the camel and of the tapir, are referred by M. 

 Cuvier to this genus. 



Eight years were passed in the examination of different specimens 

 from the Paris quarries, in which M. Cuvier obtained only separate 

 bones, and in which he had not obtained any specimen which would 

 positively confirm the disposition he had made of the two sets of feet with 

 the two sets of jaws. At last, he was so fortunate as to obtain two ske- 

 letons, almost complete, ^.Anoplotherium commune, which confirmed, be- 

 yond conjecture, the arrangements which he had before made, of the 

 detached bones, and which have been here adopted. 



The first was contained in several large stones from the quarry of 

 Montmartre, and appeared to have been the entire skeleton of an animal 

 of the size of a small horse. The parts which M. Cuvier obtained were, 

 a portion of the tail, the pelvis, ribs, two thirds of the os femoris, and 

 'some scattered bones of the hind-foot, with the two jaws. One side only 

 of the skeleton was preserved, as is the case with all those of the large 

 animals in these quarries; being that, M. Cuvier supposes, on which 

 the animal lay, the upper side being detached and removed before it be- 

 came incrusted with the stone. It appears also, that in this interval, 

 the fore extremity and a part of the hinder of the remaining side had 

 been carried away, perhaps by some voracious animals, it being very 

 plain, that the lower part of the os femoris had been carried away before 

 it had been incrusted. 





