44 AMPHITHERIID,E. 



fresh proof of its cetacean character. All the weight, 

 therefore, which the Basilosaurus was supposed to add to 

 the Saurian hypothesis of the Stonesfield jaws, must now be 

 transferred to the scale of the Mammalian view. 



And having now answered the statements and argu- 

 ments which have been put forth by those whom the 

 Memoirs of M. Valenciennes and myself failed to convince, 

 I shall proceed to describe successively all the specimens of 

 the remains of the small insectivorous animals, from the 

 Stonesfield Oolitic slate, that have hitherto come under 

 my observation. 



Fig. 16. 



AMPHITHERIUM PREVOSTII. No. 1. 



The above wood-cut, (No. 16,) represents the original 

 specimen of the remains of the AmpJiitJierium Prevostii, 

 examined by Baron Cuvier in the year 1818,* first noticed 

 by Dr. Bucldand in 1823, and figured by M. Prevost in 

 1825. The cut is carefully copied from the engraving in 

 the Geological Transactions ; the natural size of the fossil 

 is given in outline, and it is enlarged four diameters in the 

 finished figure below. 



The fossil partly exhibits, partly represents by impression 



* Ossemens fossiles, 4to. vol. v. pt. ii. Ed. 1 824, p. 349. 



