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trunk, and probably this organ had an intermediate character be- 

 tween the trunk of the Tapir and that of the Elephant. Its jaw is 

 twice as large as that of a Buflalo, and larger than that of a Rhino- 

 ceros. The remains of the Sivatherium were accompanied by 

 those of the Elephant, Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, 

 several Ruminantia, &c. 



We have seen (p. 74) that there is a wider distance between the 

 living Genera of the Order Pachydermata than between those oC 

 any other Order of Mammalia, and that many intervals in the 

 series of these animals have been filled up by extinct Genera and 

 Species, discovered in strata of the Tertiary series. The Siva- 

 therium forms an important addition to the extinct Genera of this 

 intermediate and connecting character. The value of such links 

 with reference to considerations ia Natural Theology has been 

 already alluded to, p. 95. 



P. 77. Farther light has recently been thrown on the history 

 of the organic remains of the Miocene system^ of the Tertiary 

 deposites, by an account of discoveries made in the strata of this 

 formation in the South of France, near the base of tlie Pyrenees. 

 On the 16th of January, 1837, a Memoir was presented to the 

 Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. Lartet, respcctiiig a prodi- 

 gious number of fossil bones that have been lately found in the 

 tertiary fresh-water formation, of Simorre, Sansan, &c., in the 

 department of Gers. Among these remains are bones of more 

 than 30 species, referable to nearly all the orders of Mammalia^^ 

 The most remarkable among them is the lower jaw of an Ape,, 

 which presents the first fossil type of the order Quadrumana yet 

 discovered. The individual from wliich this jaw was derived, was 

 probably about 30 inches high. 



The following is a List of the Genera under which these fossij 

 remains axe comprehended.. 



Quadrumana. Si7nia, one species. 



PACHYDiiRMATA. Diiwlherlum , two species. Mastadrm, five 

 species, llhinoceros, three species. One new anin^al allied to. 

 Rhinoceros. Folxotherium, one species. Anoplolherumi, one 

 species. One extinct species allied to JinthracotJuraan, On?; 

 extinct species allied to Sus. 



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