PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Vot. III. 1838. No. 59. 
Nov. 7, 18838.—The Society assembled this evening for the Ses- 
sion: John Davies Gilbert, Esq., F.R.S., of Eastbourne, Sussex, 
was elected a Fellow of this Society. 
A paper was first read, ‘‘ On some Fossil Remains of Palzeotherium, 
Anoplotherium, and Chzropotamus, from the freshwater beds of the 
Isle of Wight,” by Richard Owen, Esq., F.G.S., Hunterian Professor 
in the Royal College of Surgeons. 
Some years previous to 1825, Mr. Thomas Allan, of Edinburgh, 
_ found in the freshwater beds at Binstead in the Isle of Wight, a tooth 
which was subsequently determined by Mr. Pentland to be a molar 
of the Anoplotherium commune*; and in 1830, Mr. Pratt found in 
the same quarries teeth of one species of Anoplotherium and of two 
species of Palzotherium+; and thus the freshwater strata of the 
Hampshire basin were proved to contain remains of some of the Pa- 
chydermata which had been discovered in the gypsum quarries of 
Montmartre. 
The specimens described by Mr. Owen in this paper were col- 
lected by the Rev. W. Darwin Fox, at Binstead and Seafield; and 
being numerous and well preserved they have enabled the author to 
establish a still greater agreement in the remains of the two locali- 
ties. Of the genus Paleotherium, the collection contained teeth 
and bones of P. medium, P. crassum, P. curtum? and P. minus ; 
and of the genus Anoplotherium, teeth of A. commune and A. secun- 
darium. 
The most important specimen, however, in the collection is a right 
ramus of the lower jaw of the Cheropotamus, wanting only one false 
molar, a small portion of the symphysis, and the top of the coronoid 
process. 
This genus was established by Cuvier from an imperfect fragment 
of the base of the skull, with six molar teeth on each side, and a 
small portion of a ramus of the lower jaw with the canine ? and two 
spurious molars. He nevertheless proved from the form of the teeth, 
the glenoid cavity, and the zygomatic arches, that the animal be- 
_* See a paper by Dr. Buckland, Annals Phil., New Series, vol. x. p. 360. 
+ Geological Transactions, Sec. Ser., vol. iii. p. 451. 
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