Miscellanies. 171 



Specimens of the tertiary formations of France, Sec. Presented 

 by M. le Baron Cuvier. 



Fossil shells from Grignon. Presented by M. le Baron Cuvier. 



Ammonites, Scaphites, Turrilites, &c. from Rouen in Normandy^ 

 Presented b)^ M. Brongniart. 



Shells from the tertiary formations of France and Italy. Pi-esent- 

 ed by M. Brongniart. 



Teeth and bones of hyenas, bears, deer, foxes, fee. from the cel- 

 ebrated Cavern of Kirkdale, in Yorkshire. 



Bones and teeth of the Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros, from the 

 Vale of Arno, &tc. 



A glass case in the center of the room contains numerous speci- 

 mens of fossil teeth of sharks and other fishes from the chalk near 

 Lewes. 



A thigh bone (femur) of a Mammoth from Cheshire. 



A most elegant and perfect specimen of the anders of the celebra- 

 ted extinct Fossil Elk of Ireland, measuring nearly eleven feet from 

 one extremity to the other. 



Results. — There have been discovered in the strata of Sussex, 

 exclusively of the organic contents of the modern alluvial deposits, 

 the remains of nearly four hundred species of animals and vegetables, 

 of vs^hich the following arrangement exhibits a condensed view. 



Vertehrated Animals. 



C Pachydermaia : four species belonging to as 

 Mammalia, < many genera. 



{ Cetacea . one species . one genus. 

 Birds, One or more. 



C Chelonia . three species . three genera. 

 Reptiles, < Sauria . nine species . four genera. 



( Pterodactylus ? 

 Fishes, Twenty-four or more species. 18 genera. 



Invertehrated Animals. 



"" Multilocnlar, fifty species belonging to 



Testaceous 

 mollusca, 



eight genera. 



Univalve, (9 fresh water) 



11 species belonging to 34 genera. 

 Bivalve, (12 fresh water) 



130 species ... 42 genera. 

 ^ Midtivalve, 3 species . . 3 genera. 



