700 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
depth of the pees between the outer and what pede agi been the inner 
border of the tooth would separate it from this gen He knew of no 
tooth belonging ra ‘ies se gigantic races of a former word which approach- 
es it in the extent of this deep expansive concavity between the outer and 
1e 
characters nai, 2 ng to each of them, though generically distinct. It 
st na phytiverous pachyderm, as oo if not larger than the 
Titanotheri 
e took pear at pleasure ee proposing to Shey gg rae it, at least_provision- 
ally, by the — exe ap idyotherium, = hon of Prof. Jos. Lei eidy, 
whose rae shed lab mparative anatomy has already: accom- 
his spediilién was sent to him by his friend Dr. 8. Hor rine, of Knoxville, 
Tennessee, and was found at King’s Salt Works, near Abingdon, in Vir- 
written to his friend to procure other specimens, if possible, and ‘trusted he 
should be able ‘6 present the Academy with something more definite upon 
the character of these remains within a few weeks. 
Mr. N. Holmes presented a fragment of Indian pottery, 
made of sun-dried ars which he had obtained from the Big 
Mound at St. Loui 
He remarked that €: i streets in the vicinity of the mound had been cut 
down to a depth of eight or ten feet below the natural surface, and that 
vellow ist like the clay of our hills. He had found this fragment of pot- 
fet above the m in the upper and cage portion of the section, Bout two 
postion, on the caioeiiiog that the mound was a natural formation. a 
conclus sion was inevitable, that it ah go been carried thither by 
posed his m mound to be a natural formation. Messrs. Squier and Davis, 
fore the section was made, judging from its situation and form, * ; 
gle terrace on the eastern side, and other circumstances no npr et msc 
especially when compared with other posi structures (of which . “a 
Mound in the American Bottom was an example), had onan 
