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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 
remains of the Sivatherium were accompanied by those of the 
Elephant, Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, several Rumi- 
nantia, &c. 
It is stated (p. 88) that there is a wider distance between the 
living Genera of the Order Pachydermata than between those of 
any other Order of Mammalia, and that many intervals in the 
series of these animals have been filled up by extinct Genera and 
Species, discovered in strata of the Tertiary series. The Siva- 
therium forms an important addition to the extinct Genera of 
this intermediate and connecting character. The value of such 
links with reference to considerations in Natural Theology has 
been already alluded to, p. 114. 
P. 1 06. Since this work was in the press, the author has seen 
at Li^ge the very extensive collection of fossil Bones made by 
M. Schmerling in the caverns of that neighbourhood, and has 
visited some of the places where they were found. Many of 
these bones appear to have been brought together like those in 
the cave of Kirkdale, by the agency of Hymnas, and have evi- 
dently been gnawed by these animals ; others, particularly those 
of Bears, are not broken, or gnawed, but were probably collected 
in the same manner as the bones of Bears in the cave of Gailen- 
reuth, by the retreat of these animals into the recesses of caverns 
on the approach of death ; some may have been introduced by 
the action of water. 
The human bones found in these caverns are in a state of 
less decay than those of the extinct species of beasts ; they are 
accompanied by rude flint knives and other instruments of flint 
and bone, and are probably derived from uncivilized tribes that 
inhabited the caves. Some of the human bones may also be the 
remains of individuals who, in more recent times, may have been 
buried in such convenient repositories. 
M. Schmerling, in his Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles 
des Cavernes de Li^gc, expresses his opinion that these human 
bones are coeval with those of the quadrupeds, of extinct species, 
found with them ; an opinion from which the Author, after a 
careful examination of M. Schmerling’s collection, entirely dis- 
sents. 
