282 ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



Wirtemburg. In the Wirtemburg Annuaire for 1823, M. Jaeger also 

 enumerates those which had been made during the two preceding 

 years. As they were excavating a cellar at Stuttgart, they found an 

 elephant's tusk, with the shoulder bone and part of the fibula of a rhi- 

 noceros, and the shoulder blade and portions of the skull of very large- 

 sized oxen. 



The Suabian Mercury of the 22nd of April, 1823, gives the details 

 of several large bones exhumed at Kahlenstein, a hill on the borders 

 of the valley of the Necker, where the king was building a villa. 

 They consisted of a tusk thirteen feet seven inches long, rather muti- 

 lated at the root, a very large portion of the pelvis, a molar, and a 

 shoulder bone, a foot in diameter at the base, &c. They were lying in 

 sand, resembling that of a river, eighty-two feet below the level of the 

 Necker, and seventeen or eighteen feet below the surface of the soil. 

 They are the largest specimens preserved in the Royal Museum. 



Nor have the other parts of Germany been less productive. In 

 the last number of the " Archives of the Primitive World," edited by 

 MM. Ballenstedt and Kruger, mention is made of a tusk drawn 

 from the Lippe near Ham, on the 16th of May, 1823 ; a molar of nine 

 plates, and nine inches in length, found at Laufen, towards the close 

 of 1823, while they were sinking a well ; another of eight inches, ex- 

 humed near Philisbourg, during the summer of the same year, and 

 a tusk eight feet in length, extracted from a sand pit near the Weser, 

 in the neighbourhood of Minden, on the 12th of February, 1824. 



On the 16th of September, 1819, some elephants' jaws were ex- 

 humed at Mersebourg on the Saale, a little below Halle in Saxony *. 



Previous to this, they had discovered some near the confluence of the 

 Helm in the Unstrut, where the swollen currents had disengaged them 

 from the mounds. In 1821, some were found at Wester Egeln, a 

 village near the little town of Egeln, in the duchy of Brunswick, and 

 at Watenstedt in the same duchy, which were purchased and conveyed 

 to Berlin. The former were enclosed in a layer of clay, and the latter 

 lay contiguous to a quarry of gypsum f. 



On the 21st of January, 1818, a fisherman drew from the Rhine 

 the last of the phalanges and the shoulder blade of an elephant. Wir- 

 temburg still continues to furnish these fossil remains of elephants. 

 M. Jaeger informs me that some have been discovered near the source 

 of the mineral waters of Constadt, in a quarry of calcareous white 

 gravel, which has yielded them in great abundance. They are there 

 accompanied by the bones of the rhinoceros, the hyena, and an immense 

 quantity of those of horses, as well as the bones of oxen, similar to those 

 found in the peat pits of Sindelfingen, at a distance of three leagues 

 from the spot. There are also some very large bones of the stag 

 species. 



Prussia and Poland. — In 1812, the fragment of a molar tooth was 

 exhumed on the Polish bank of the Dreventz, which forms the boun- 

 dary of Prussia f. 



* Ballenstedt's Archives of the Primitive World, vol. i, p. 65 and 3768. 

 •f Ibib, vol. ii, p. 403. 

 J Ibid, vol. iii, p. 217. 



