252 ON THE FOSSIL BONIS* OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



versity. M. Tiedemann, procured the fragment of a cubitus from the 

 same place. 



In the work we have ahead)- quoted, Merk mentions a shoulder- 

 blade, a shoulder-bone, two thighs, a tusk, an ischium, and a cubitus, 

 exhumed on the banks of the Rhine, from a gravel bed near Erfelden, in 

 the district of Darmstadt. There was the skull of a rhinoceros close to it. 



It is probable that the elephant's pelvis, deposited in the Museum 

 of Darmstadt, was exhumed in the same quarter, as M.Fischer has 

 suggested. According to the account of this naturalist, there are also 

 in this Museum some teeth found at Erbach in the Rheingau. 



Francis Beuth had in his keeping five jaws and a tusk found in 

 the Rhine, near Dusseldorf *. 



M. Schlothein has a jaw from the vicinity of the same town, in his 

 Museum f . 



M. Leidenfrost, professor at Duysburg, had a lower jaw, a shoulder, 

 a fragment of a thigh, and two upper jaws, from the banks of the 

 Lippe, near Schornbeck, in the duchy of Cleves, a little distance 

 from the Rhine, and, as in almost every other instance, accompanied 

 by fragments of bones of the rhinoceros J. 



In 1746, mention is made of bones dug up at Lippenheim near 

 Wesel§. We find it stated in the Moniteur of April 16", 1809, that 

 in a province near Wesel, which had been inundated by the Rhine, 

 a jaw neighing three pounds fourteen ounces was found after the 

 retreat of the river. 



As the beds of the Rhine and the Meuse yield these fossils in 

 such profusion, it is but natural to suppose that the inundations at 

 their embouchures cannot be unsupplied with them. Hence we find 

 that Holland abounds with them. 



Plempius tells us of a thigh found at Yusseb, near Doesburg. 



Lulof mentions a tooth and several bones, dug up in the valley of 

 Yussel near Zutphen||. 



Palicr describes a thigh, forty-one inches long, and a vertebra, left 

 bare by an eruption of the Meuse, near Hedel in the Bommelerwaerdt, 

 on the 11th of February, 1757. 



Verster gives us some excellent models, wrought by Camper, of a 

 large portion of the skull of a young subject, and of a portion of a 

 pelvis exhumed near the same place, at Bois-le-Duc ^[, which is men- 

 tioned by Camper himself, in his memoir on the skull of a two-horned 

 rhinoceros **. 



* Julise et montium subterranea, Dusseldorf, 1776, Svo., p. 77. We have to notice 

 an amusing mistake of this writer, on the subject of these teeth. Finding in the 

 Protegcea of Leibnitz the drawing of the molar of an elephant exhumed at Tydia, 

 he perceived at once, that those he had were similar to it, but imagining that Tydia 

 was the name of the animal to which Leibnitz referred the bones, he exhausted 

 himself in inquiries and researches to ascertain what sort of an animal this Tydia 

 was, of which he could find no mention. 



■f Knowledge of Petrifactions, in German ; Gotha, 1820, p. 5. 



X Merk, third Letter, p. 13. 



§ Ccmmercium Litterarium, Nuhningii et Cdhausenii. 



|| Beschouwing des Aard Klootz in Palier. 



^i Memoirs of the Society of Haarlem, vol. xxiii, pp. 53 — 85, 



** Acta ac retrop. 1777, part ii, p. 203. 



