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42. List of Eocene mammals continued. 11. Cliae^ 

 ropotamaa Cnvieri, This member of the hog family was also 

 found in the Isle of Wight as well as at Montmartre. 12. 

 Hjiracotherium hporinum. 13. Hyi'aeoiheriiim cunkulua. 

 The first was found at Heme Bay. The form and structure 

 of the molar teeth determine this interesting genus to belong 

 to the same natural family of the hog-tribe as the Cliaerupota- 

 mils. The second is from the Eocene Clay at Kyson. 14. 

 Anoplothermm commune. This also existed in the eocene of 

 the Isle of Wight as well as at Montmartre. Jt5. LHchobune 

 eervinnm. This, too, was found in the eocene marl oi Binstead 

 Itile of Wight. Cuvier considered that this mammal resembled 

 the young musk-deer. The cotemporaneous existenee of these 

 mammals in Paris, the Isle of Wight and England (Londoi* 

 Clay) seems to indicate that the Isle of Wight and England 

 then were parts of th« continent of Ettrope. The land 

 mammals of England doubtless could roam at krge over 

 Europe, Africa and Asia. We liare noticed representative 

 land mammals of the so-called Eocene Period. We now 

 come to look for sea mammals of the same period, which 

 one record tells us did exist, as well as fowls, which we have 

 already noticed. Gen. i , 20, 21, 22. We find the Delphini- 

 dae, Dol[thins, Porpoises — of the Order Ceiacea — Whales — 

 occurring in the " Calcaire gi'ossier " of the Department of 

 Maine and Loire. Cuvier in bis Ossemens fossiles, 1823, 

 describes " Un Daupbin voisin de I'epaulard et de giobiceps." 

 A Dolphin related to the Phocejia oira (grampus) and the 

 Pkocena melas (black fish). Owen &ays that this Delphinus 

 had 17 teeth in each alveolar series of the upper jaw. The 

 Phocena Orca or Gktdiatoi; exhibited in the Norwegian depart- 

 ment of tl>e Fisheries Exhibition was certainly a monster, and 

 the Ca'ing whale or black fish is certainly not a pigmy. Schools 

 of them are often seen in our own waters. The tail and 

 flippers of one killed in Dublin Bay, N. 8., are in our Museum, 

 Each measures 3 feet. Of this the lower jaw has 10 teeth on 

 either side. Cuvier's whale seems to have been an approxi- 

 mate cotemporo»'y with the Coryphodon eocenu$ of England, 

 and the Coryphodon eocenus aikl the Qtrypfiodon oweni of 



