mammalia of eocene period. 8.‘} 
affords t ^^fiighbourhood of Paris. It 
<lern niil ""“acquainted with the mo- 
an exaranle f ^®’""^“ctmg physical researches, 
we found o ^ evidence on which 
ractt!lndTr^'""^^ ^he form, cha- 
known only tl v! creatures, that are 
remains Iff ^ their fossil 
cabinets of pTr ^ the 
-ble tlmentro t 
from tho T unknown animals, 
Cuvier thu~ds"Ihf m 
applied himseu ttl e ”k”r "' 
their skeletons M • ^ ^ reconstructing 
ll.at there we'e 
to many genera ^“^““Sirig 
aays he ‘‘asTf nl . 
rounded by miitUltS ^ 
tb-ed skeletons of ""aguients of many hun- 
animals piled V f”^^n twenty kinds of 
assigned me warf ^ task 
origL,;::irrtr::i‘'’“r'' ‘o'"- 
anatomy, every bone, a^d 1;:;:“ 
resumed its place T ot a hone, 
a-P^sa the , r™' <0 
as I discovered one I ‘“ seeing, 
consequences, which itredTcted ?“'' *' 
successively confirmed ■ ^th f ^ 
r s i"y 
