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EXTINCTION OF THE DODO. 
the stuffed specimens are destroyed ; the only 
relics that remain being the head and foot of an 
individual in the Ashmolean museum at Oxford, 
and the leg of another in the British museum. To 
render this history complete, the fossilised remains 
were alone wanting, and these have actually been 
found beneath a bed of lava in the Isle of France, 
and are now in the museum of the Jardin des 
Plantes at Paris ; affording the most unexpected 
and conclusive evidence of the truth of what was 
formerly considered one of the most startling pro- 
positions in modern geology.* 
THE DODO INEPTUS, 
from a painting of the original. 
* See an excellent paper on the dodo, by Mr. Duncan, Zoological 
Journal for January, 1828: also, “ Contributions towards the History 
of the Dodo (Didns incptus), by J. V. Thompson, Esq., Mag. Nat- 
Hist., vol, ii. p. 4>42. ; and Mr. Lyell’s Principles of Geology, vol. ii. 
p. 151. 
