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in the Cryptodontia and the Dicnyodontia, and by the 
combined lacertian and crocodilian characters in the 
Thecodontia and Sauropterygia.” In the same work — 
he tells us that, “the Anoplotherium, in several im- 
portant characters resembled the embryo Ruminant, 
but retained throughout life those marks of adhesion 
to a generalized mammalian type ;”—and assures us 
that he has ‘never omitted a proper opportunity for 
impressing the results of observations showing the 
more generalized structures of extinct as compared 
with the more specialized forms of recent animals.” 
Modern paleontologists have discovered hundreds of 
examples of these more generalized or ancestral types. 
In the time of Cuvier, the Ruminants and the Pachy- 
derms were looked upon as two of the most distinct 
orders of animals; but it is now demonstrated that 
there once existed a variety of genera and species, 
connecting by almost imperceptible grades such widely 
different animals as the pig and the camel. Among 
living quadrupeds we can scarcely find a more isolated 
group than the genus Equus, comprising the horses, 
asses, and Zebras; but through many species of Palo- 
plotherium, Hippotherium, and Hipparion, and numbers 
of extinct forms of Equus found in Europe, India, and 
America, an almost complete transition is established 
with the Eocene Anoplotherium and Paleotherium, 
which are also generalized or ancestral types of the 
Tapir and Rhinoceros. The recent researches of M. 
Gaudry in Greece have furnished much new evidence 
of the same character. In the Miocene beds of Pikermi 
