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lower jaw in part, os humeri, os femoris, and the last dorsal vertebra. 

 The other bones having been found only under one form, it therefore 

 cannot be decided to which of the two species they ought to be referred. 



Time and assiduous research may fill up these chasms ; but the ge- 

 neral result is not less certain, in that which respects the existence, in 

 these caverns, of bones of two species hitherto unknown among the living spe- 

 cies of bears. 



The species with the raised forehead, Blumenbach, Rosenmuller, and 

 Cuvier, agree in designating as Ursus spelaus ; and for that with the flat 

 forehead Cuvier proposes the name U. arctoideiis. 



The remains which I possess of these animals are, a perfect skull, the 

 half of an under jaw, and several well preserved parts of very large jaws, 

 all of which appear to have belonged to U. spelaus. 



LETTER XXXI. 



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INQUIRY CONTINUED REMAINS OF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS 



FOUND IN THE CAVERNS OF GERMANY, &C HYENA IN GAY- 



LENREUTH, CANSTADT, &C SPOTTED PANTHER ANIMAL 



RESEMBLING THE FOX EORILLA, OR POLECAT OF THE CAPE 



WOLF, OR DOG REMAINS OF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS FOUND IN 



THE PLASTER QUARRIES NEAR PARIS SARIGUE OF AMERICA 



AN ANIMAL OF THE GENUS CANIS ONE APPROACHING TO THE 



CIVET ANOTHER, SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING THE LARGE OT- 

 TER ANOTHER, ENTIREY UNKNOWN. 



1 HE following observations on the fossil remains of those which may 

 be more strictly regarded as carnivorous animals, are extremely interest- 

 ing. Whilst placing them before you, I must again acknowledge my 

 obligations to the zealous labours and perspicuous relations of M. Cu- 

 vier ; who has assiduously worked, and with his usual success, the rich 

 mine which lies open to him. 



