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526. Fossil Bones. — Near Westeregeln in Magdeburg, in a 
loam which lies over gypsum, and fills up fissures that traverse 
it, are found fossil bones of the rhinoceros, mammoth, elephant, 
hyaena, horse, and of a small unknown species of ruminating ani- 
mal. Kemains of the horse are particularly abundant, and 
along with these, bones of accipitrine birds, [n the investiga- 
tion of these remains, we must be careful not to confound them 
with bones of animals now living ; because the loam has for a 
long time served as a burrowing ground for foxes, badgers, rab- 
bits, hamsters, &c. ; and hence bones of these animals are found 
along with those of the elephant, &c. These recent bones may 
be distinguished from the older fossil bones, by colour and 
greater consistence. 
27. Remains of a Fossil Whale brought from the Apennines , by 
Lord Glenorchy. — Lord Glenorchy during his journey across the 
Apennines, was offered for sale by a peasant, a large mass of 
bone, which he said had been dug from a clay in the district 
where he lived. His Lordship purchased this curious fossil or- 
ganic remain, and, on his return to Scotland, presented it to 
Professor Jameson for the Royal Museum of the University. 
The Professor, on examining it, found it to be a portion of the 
humeral bone of a pretty large species of whale. Cuvier, in his 
great work on Fossil Animals, mentions remains of whales having 
been met with 800 or 900 feet above the level of the sea, in 
Italy, and apparently in the same clay (of a recent date), in 
which Lord Glenorchy’s specimen was found. 
28. The Megatherium found in North America. — Remains 
of this fossil animal hitherto found only in South America, have 
been discovered in the United States. Mr Dekay of New-York 
has in his possession grinders, and parts of the tibia, fibula, and 
femur of this animal, dug up in the United States. 
29. On the Organs of Generation of the Mexican Proteus , 
called by the natives Axolotl.-— Sir E. Home, in a memoir in 
the last published part of the Philosophical Transactions, consi- 
ders that Cuvier has proved, that the Proteus of Germany, as 
well as that of Carolina, are actually animals in a perfect state, 
and not larvae. The discovery that the vertebrae of the Mexican 
Proteus, were cupped in the same manner as those of the two 
