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trawl of an Ostend fishing-smack, about ten or fifteen miles off the 
island of Texel. The tusk, when fished up, was entire, and measured 
about 11 feet long, but was broken to pieces by the fishermen. The 
part obtained by Mr. Dalton is 44 feet in length, and measures about 
8 inches in diameter. When found the enamel was hard and sound, 
but the whole of the interior in a soft state. 
JuNE 16, 1847. 
Sir James Ramsey, Bart., of Banff, Forfarshire, William B. Car- 
penter, M.D., Charles Walker, Esq., and J. H. Norton, M.D., were 
elected Fellows of the Society. 
The following communications were then read :— 
1. A Letter to the Presipent from Leonarp Horner, Esq., 
F.R.S. L. & E., dated Bonn, June 1847. 
In this letter Mr. Horner mentions that he had been informed by 
M. von Dechen, that some well-preserved remains of Saurian reptiles 
had recently been discovered in the Saarbruck coal-field, celebrated 
for containing several species of fossil fish. Mr. Horner gives some 
details of the structure of these Saurians so far as they were then 
known, and states that the specimens had been entrusted to Prof. 
Goldfuss for description. 
2. On the Fossil remains of Mammauia referable to the genus 
PALZOTHERIUM, and to two genera, PALOPLOTHERIUM and 
Dicuopon, hitherto undefined: from the Kocrenre Sanp at 
Horp.e, Hamesuire. By Professor Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
Part I.—Description of Teeth of a Paleothere, from Eocene sand, 
Hlordle, resembling those of the species called Paleeotherium me- 
dium, figured in Cuvier’s ‘ Ossemens Fossiles, t. mi. pl. 42. 
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To ALEXANDER Pytrts Fatconer, Esq. of Beacon, Christchurch, 
Hants, and to his brother Taomas FaLconer, Esq. of Wootton in 
the same county, British Paleontology is much indebted for some 
new and highly interesting fossil remains, which they have obtained 
at considerable trouble and expense from the Eocene freshwater for- 
mation in the cliffs at Hordle, Hants. I beg to express my sincere 
acknowledgments to those gentlemen for their liberal transmission to 
me, from time to time, of their valuable acquisitions from this in- 
teresting stratum, of which I purpose on the present occasion to 
describe the specimens of jaws and teeth of the herbivorous or hoofed 
Mammalia. 
* The quarto edition of 1822 is cited throughout this paper. 
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