290 Mr. MuRCHisoN on a Fossil Fox found at (Eningen near Constance. 



the organic remains, tliat even in those early days, though some few species 

 were distinct from any now known, the meadows teemed with plants of a 

 very modern type — that the lakes were filled with fishes, and their banks 

 covered with insects, dilfering little or not at all from existing species — whilst 

 the forests contained birds and beasts, from among which the carnivorous 

 quadruped here described has been perfectly preserved in its stony envelope, 

 and is scarcely distinguishable from the common fox now inhabiting our 

 latitudes. 



