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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 
Ruminantia. Bos, one species. Antilope, one species. 
Cervus, several species. 
Edentata. One large unknown species. 
M. de Blainville, who is about to publish an account of these 
remains, points out their importance in illustrating the ancient 
Zoology of France, since, in a single locality, which was formerly 
a Basin, receiving an abundance of alluvial waters, we find con- 
fusedly mixed together in a Tertiary fresh-water formation, scat- 
tered and broken bones and fragments of skeletons of a large 
proportion of the fossil Quadrupeds which are found dispersed 
over the Tertiary strata of the rest of France, and derived from 
genera of almost all the orders of Mammalia. — Comptes rendus. 
No. 3. Jan. 16, 1837. These remains appear to be of the 
same age with those at Epplesheim. 
P. 106. In September, 1835, the author saw at Liege the 
very extensive collection of fossil Bones made by M. Schmer- 
ling in the caverns of that neighbourhood, and 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 evidently 
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 Gaileu- 
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, have been 
buried in such convenient repositories. M. Schmerling, in his 
Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles des Cavernes de Liege, 
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. Schraerling’s collection, entirely dissents. 
