ENUMERATION AND ACCOUNT 
OP SOME REMARKABLE NATURAL OBJECTS OF THE CABINET OF 
PROF. RAFINESQUE, IN PHILADELPHIA; 
Being Animals, Shell*, Plants , and Fossils, collected by him in North 
America, between 1810 and 1831 ^^^. 
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER, iSS-H 
All the objects enumerated in 
this tract, have chiefly been disco- 
vered, collected, preserved, named, 
described and figured by myself du- 
ring fifteen years travels and ex- 
plorations in 15 of our States; they 
have been conveyed at great ex- 
pense to this City, and will soon be 
sent to Europe for sale, unless dis- 
posed of in the United States. 
Many are unique specimens of great 
beauty and value, forming new gene- 
ra or new species, as will be seen. 
C. S. RAFINESQUE, 
Professor of. Historical and Natural Sciences 
I. FOSSIL REMAINS OF QUAD- 
RUPEDS. 
1. MANAMA SALINARIA, 
Raf. A fossil horn silicified outside, 
nearly intact inside, found in 1820 
in clearing an old saline of the In- 
dians on Knob creek in Kentucky 
near Knoblick, 9 feet under ground. 
Simple horn 5 inches long, f at base, 
perfect, slightly curved, cylindrical 
conical, point obtuse; outside very 
smooth, redish brown; inside solid, 
4 white,' minutely cellular. It ap- 
pears to have belonged to an ani- 
mal somewhat similar to the Ante- 
lopes, but with solid horns like Cer- 
vus, although not forked, which are 
the characters of my G. Max am a of 
1817, several sp. of which exist {is 
yet in Mexico and South America. 
It belongs to the latest geological 
age of fossil animals. 
2. PANALLODON TUMULA- 
RIUM, Raf. A jaw-bone with the 
teeth, found in 1822 in the tumulus 
or altar of a very old Circus or So- 
lar temple on Salt River in Ken- 
tucky. Jaw 6 inches long, white 
not petrified, all the teeth unequal, 
incisive smaller bifid obtuse, sinus 
acute, with two transverse curved 
lamina, molar teeth with very large 
roots, upper part smaller unequally 
bifid and trifid, lobuiate, crenulate 
and substriate. Animal size of a 
small Deer or mazama, teeth very 
different from Deer, more like some 
Carnivorous Animals, but no Ca- 
nine tooth. Perhaps akin to Ma- 
nama, the dentition of which is lit- 
tle known. Latent geological age, 
later than No. 1, period of the Mas- 
todons. 
3. TAURUS GIGAS, Raf. Found 
1 82 L in a lick near Salt River, Ken- 
tucky. A beautiful and perfect 
tooth of a Bull, white, nearly fresh 
and with the enamel. Shape a pa- 
rallelogram, nearly 3 inches long, 
1| broad, root short lobular, upper 
part squared, bilobed above, front 
with 5 broad ribs, 2 alternate longer 
ending the two lobes above, back 
with a medial depression and incre- 
ment, the 2 sides smooth, end slant- 
ing, bilobe lamellar. This large 
tooth weighing nearly 3 ounces, 
must have belonged to a very large 
Ox, even larger than the Bos lati~ 
frons (Taurus latifrons, Raf.) of the 
Authors. Age of the Mastodons. 
4. APER. Molar tooth of a 
doubtful sp. of Hog, found with the 
above Bull, perfect with the enamel, 
upper surface white, oblong, one inch 
long, divided by sutures into poly- 
gons, each with a fulvous central 
spot, six unequal roots, one very 
short, and one opposite very long. 
Is it the Aper pecari ? 
II. FISHES. 
5. TRINECTES SCABRA, Raf. 
Living Fish of the tribe Pleuronec - 
tes . It differs from Achirus by hav- 
ing only 3 fins, the dorsal, anal and, 
caudal all free. Brownish, rough 
by ciliated scales, eyes to the right, 
dorsal and anal with 45 rays, begin- 
ning very near the head, caudal 
oblong with 15 rays. First noticed 
by Mr. Carr, comes in the Dela- 
ware and Schuylkill in the Spring 
with the Shads. Very small* 1 to 
3 inches long onlv. 
6. NEPHROST EON, Raf. Very 
singular fossil bone of a fish from 
the diluvial region of Louisiana. It 
must have been the head plate of a 
