850 ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEBS. 



Memoirs of the Academy of Bavaria, vol. iv, page 1 ; he likewise 

 takes them for the same species as those of Ohio. They were found 

 on the 6th of April, 1762, near Reichenberg, in Lower Bavaria, in a 

 sand pit, thirty feet beneath the surface, from which some peasants 

 were raising materials for the repair of the high roads. To this speci- 

 men the author joins the anterior portion of the jaw of a rhinoceros 

 exhumed at the same time. 



In 1786, after all the labours of Daubenton, of Camper, and so 

 many others, Guettard, who had himself published the figure of a 

 tooth of Ohio, thirty-four years previously, having again occasion to 

 give the figure of the tooth of the animal found at Montabusard, near 

 Orleans, still continued to doubt whether he was to attribute it to an 

 hippopotamus, or one of the cetacea. 



Hence, we have every reason for saying that naturalists have not 

 bestowed on those teeth that attention which they deserved ; and it 

 was not without feelings of surprise that I learned, in the course of 

 my correspondence, that they were so very common in different parts 

 of Europe and of America. 



In fact, besides those of Tuscany, Simorre, Bavaria, and Trevonx, 

 which were previously described, I have seen some from Sort, near 

 Dax, in the museum of the late M. de Borde. Mr. G. A. Deluc has 

 sent me one from the neighbourhood of Arti in Piedmont. M. Fabroni 

 has sent me casts of those of the Val d'Arno, deposited in the museum 

 at Florence. M. Faujas has given me drawings of three, one of 

 which was found at Rochetta di Tanaro, near Asti, another at the 

 foot of the Alps, and the third near Padua. All those brought 

 from Peru by Dombey and Humboldt, as well as those found by 

 the latter at the Giant's Camp, near Santa Fe de Bogota, in Terra 

 Firma, are also similar. 



Since the publication of my first edition, I have been handed one 

 from the deparment of risere. M. Chouteau has sent me the frag- 

 ments of some from Avaray, near Beaugency, found with some morsels 

 of palsetheriums, of ruminants, and of trionyx. 



M. Biot has sent me a very large one, still adhering to a portion of 

 its jaw. It came from Santa Fe de Bogota, and probably from the 

 Giant's Camp likewise. I saw at Florence the casts of two very fiand- 

 some and very large germs, with six pair of denticuli. 



The originals were found at Palaia, between San-Miniato and Leg- 

 horn, and are in the museum of the late M. Baldovinetti, provost of 

 the Chapter of Leghorn. The Cabinet of the Academy of Turin, of 

 the Institute of Bologna, of the University of Pisa, and of the Roman 

 College, have presented me with specimens more or less considerable. 

 M. George Sante, professor at Pisa, has given some teeth found at 

 Sienna, which I have deposited in the King's Museum. I also brought 

 some with me from Rome, which were found near Monte- Verde. 



But a short time since, M. Scemraerring announced to me in a let- 

 ter, dated the 5th of April 1819, that some had been discovered at 

 Darmstadt, at Alzey, not far from Worms, and near the lake of Zurich 

 in Switzerland, casts arid fragments of which had been sent to him 

 from those several places. 



The same learned man, in the Appendix of his Memoir, read to the 



