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great analogies which occur between the north of Europe, Asia, and 
America. I arrive therefore at the same conclusion with yourself as 
regards these latter countries, namely, that the alpine vegetation is cer- 
tainly the most ancient in our country, and that subsequently when the 
climate became warmer, after the glacial epoch, it rose from the low 
countries to the mountains and Alps.—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Aug. 1856, 
p. 183, from Bibliothéque Univ. de Genéve, April, 1856, p. 327. ; 
%. On the Ruminant Quadrupeds and the Aboriginal Cattle of Brt- 
ain ; by Professor Owey, F. R. S., (Proce. Roy. Inst. Great Britain, May, 
1856.)—The speaker introduced the subject of the Ruminant order of 
ese are divisible into two natural and parallel orders, having respect- 
ively the Anoplotherium and Paleotherium as their types, which genera, 
‘he brilliant researches by Baron Cuvier, the founder of palzontologi- 
1 
Diagrams of the entire skeletons of the Anoplotherinm and Palzothe- 
rium were referred to, in illustration of their dental and osteological pe- 
culiarities. 
The Anoplotherium, with the typical dentition of 
ae 3—3 oo peed 4—4 sig 
incisors riges canines om & premolars rey & molars a 
had all its teeth of the same length, and in a continuous unbroken series? 
this character is peculiar to man in the existing creation. ‘Ihe Paleothe- 
rium, with the same dental formula as the Anoplotherium, had the canines 
longer than the other teeth, and developed into sharp-pointed weapons; 
necessitating a break in the dental series to receive their summits in clos 
ing the mouth. 
The anoplotherium had 19 vertebrz between the neck and sacrum, Vi2- 
13 dorsal, and 6 jumbar. The palzotherium had 16 dorsal, and 7 lum- 
bar vertebre. 
The anoplotherium had a femur with 2 trochanters, and the fore-part 
os vine ankle-bone, called “astragalus,” divided in 2 equal facets. Its 
ost nearly resemble that extinct primitive hoofed quadruped, with ” 
