UN THE KOSSIL BONES OF THE ELEPHANT OF THE RUSSIANS. 24") 



of elephants. The Black Mountain contains quantities of them along 

 its declivities. 



M. Dodun, a veteran engineer of the department of Taru, has dis- 

 covered in the neighbourhood of Gastelnaudary, several jaws of ele- 

 phants strongly characterised, the drawings of which he has shewn 

 me. He mentions them in the Journal de Physique, vol. lxi, p. 

 254. 



A mutilated thigh and some rows of jaws were found at Gaillac, in 

 Albigeois, in 1749. They were in a bed of dry gravel mixed with sand, 

 eleven feet from the surface of the soil *. 



I have myself placed in the museum a jaw from the neighbourhood 

 of Thoulouse, for which w r e are indebted to M. Tournon, a physician 

 and clever naturalist of that town. 



M. Marcassus de Pirymaurin, member of the Academy of Toulouse, 

 and father of our present deputy, sent to the Museum several frag- 

 ments of tusks, which he found on the back of a little hill, a quarter 

 of a league from the castle of Alan, the residence of the Bishops of 

 Comminges f. 



M. Mosneron, a deputy of the old legislative body, presented me 

 with the upper part of a thigh found at the foot of the Pyrenees, which 

 I have placed in the King's Museum. It is very large, and belonged 

 to an animal of about sixteen feet in height. 



Advancing towards the north, we do not find any diminution in the 

 quantity of the fossil bones of elephants. There is a portion of a 

 shoulder plate in the museum, exhumed three leagues below Chalons 

 sur Saone, in the direction of Tournons. It was brought to the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences in 1743, by Geoffroy J. 



The workmen who are employed in opening the Canal du Centre, 

 have recently discovered a heap of them in the same province. Owing 

 to the activity of the late M. Gerardin, who was employed by the 

 Museum, a jaw, easily distinguishable, though broken, has come to my 

 hands. Beside it was the jaw of a rhinoceros. The place where the 

 discovery was made is called Chagny. 



The late M. Tonnelier, keeper of the Museum of the Board of 

 Mines, preserved the plate of a jaw which was found in an embank- 

 ment at a place called Pont de Pierre, a league from Auxerre. 



My late colleague, M. Tenon, member of the Academy of Sciences, 

 saw another tooth from the neighbourhood of the last- mentioned 

 town. 



In July, 1773, M. Pazumot found a petrified molar tooth in l'Yonne. 



Some years since, as they were blasting a rock for the purpose of 

 enlarging a garden at Fovent, a village near Gray, in the department 

 of the Haute Saone, they found in a cavity a great quantity of bones, 

 consisting of jaws and portions of the tusks of elephents, with the bones 

 of the rhinoceros, horses, and a peculiar species of hyena, which I de- 

 scribe elsewhere. 



M. Le Fevre de Morey succeeded in procuring these bones for the 



* History of the Academy of Thoulouse, vol. i, p. 62. 



'Y Daubenton's King's Museum of Natural History, vol. xi, No. dcdxcix. 

 X Ibid., No. mxxxii ; and Mairan, Hist. Acad, of §c, 1743, p. 49. 

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