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private ; more particularly in the cabinet of the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of the Philo- 

 sophical Society &c. &c. The Geological Society of 

 Pennsylvania, possesses an enormous fossil Os femoris of 

 this animal, found near Moorestown, New Jersey. 



I have observed several specimens of elephant teeth, 

 with the enamel arranged like that of the African ele- 

 phant, which appeared to be fossilized ; two of these 

 are in the museum at Liverpool, one in my own collec- 

 tion ; their origin is uncertain, and all such are consi- 

 dered as apocryphal by Baron Cuvier. 



Genus Tapirus. 

 T. mastodontoides, Harlan. 



Fauna Americana, page 224. 



Locality. Big-bone-lick, sta^ of Kentucky. 



This fossil molar tooth displays considerable analogy 

 to that of the 66 small fossil Tapir" of Cuvier, differing 

 only in the obliquity of the transverse eminences of the 

 crown, and in the form of the disks of these, produced 

 by detrition ; but as subsequent and more extensive ob- 

 servation on the tapirs, in the museum of the 66 Jardin 

 des Plantes," at Paris, has convinced us that similar dif- 

 ferences in the form and direction of the transverse emi- 

 nences are displayed in the different teeth of the same 

 individual, we admit that little reliance is to be placed 

 on them, when regarded as specific characters. 



The molar teeth of the Tapirs, Kangaroo and Mana 



