<nANT8 AND PTOMIES. 



France. "With the last are associated the Gastornis parisiensis, 

 Hebert "a gigantic bird whose proportions imist have sur- 

 f)a8sed those of the ostrich." We wish the fact of the occur- 

 rence of the whale at this period to be particularly noted, as 

 it may be referred to in a future No. (44.) Owen in his list 

 mentions also the following whales • (^) Balaerunlon afflnis, 

 {3) Balaenodon d^nita, (4 J Balaenodon emarginata, (5 j 

 Balaenodon gihbosa, (6) Balaeno'ion phymloides. Most of 

 ithese whales are found in tiie Miocene Crag of Suffolk and 

 Norfolk, but there is little doubt that they were washed out 

 ■of the underlyingjeocene clay. — Owen. •> > '• . 



43. (!•)• We hare found the "Sable de Fontainebleau" 

 •occupying the summit of Buttee Montmartre. (2). Else- 

 where -the ■*' Calcaire de lieauee " rests immediately on the 

 Sands of Fontainebleau. After the Lintestone of Beauce, which 

 is a fresh water formation, (3) are "cla-ys with millstone 

 or buhrstone " liaving Chora medicaginula. (4). Succeeding 

 .there is another limestone with Helices, snail shells — a lake- 

 iormed limestone. We now come to th« " Upper Miocene." 

 {5). The first bed -of this period is a marine " Mollasse " near 

 Utzigen, east of Berne, in Switzerland. In this ai« nrixed 

 teeth of fisl^s and bones of mammals such as Hyena, Elephant 

 and Ehiuoceros. These mammals of fe^v^^itzerland send us back 

 to Formosa — in China, where Hyenas, Elephants and Rhinpceros 

 appear as cotempcffaries. Sir E. Owen tells us of their occur- 

 rence here. Mr. Graham's collections tell us a part of the 

 same story. With the marine shells of Eocene (?) age, already 

 noticed, we have iossil flora resembling cuZawi/e*, bat evidently 

 different from those of the Carboniferous period. They are 

 probably Eocene flora, pre-mammalian. Accompanying these, 

 'were(l) apart »f the lower jaw of a Ruminant, having por- 

 tions of .two teeth. (-). A tooth of anotlier mammal of large 

 si^e. This is nearJy entire. Wishing to have the opinion of 

 Owen, as he had examined and ^lescribed other mammal 

 remains from Formosa, I sr^nt them to the British Museum 

 last winter. As Sir Richard Owen has retired from the 

 Museum, Mr. Davies axamiued them and pronounced the jaw 



