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These fossil remains M. Cuvier considers as belonging to a large 
animal, which might have approximated to the tapir, and which he 
calls the large fossil tapir. Plate XXI. Fig. 3, is the outline of the 
fossil tooth of this gigantic animal, found at St.Lary,in Couserans, copied 
from M. Cuvier’s engraving, PI. II. Fig. 7, Ann. du Mus. Tome hi. 
LETTER XXIX. 
FOSSIL PACHYDERMATA OF THE ENVIRONS OF PARIS.. ..PAL^EOTHERIUM 
MAGNUM, MEDIUM, CRASSUM, MINUS. ...ANOPLOTHERIUM COMMUNE, 
MEDIUM, MINUS, MINIMUM. ...UNDETERMINED ANIMAL OF ORLEANS. 
I shall, with great pleasure, show you in the present Letter, that 
the unceasing and ingeniously directed labours of Cuvier have been 
rewarded by the discovery of the fossil remains of two genera of pachy- 
dermata, containing seven or eight different species, the analogues of 
which are at present entirely unknown. To one of these he has given 
the name of Palceotherium, or ancient large animal or beast ; and to 
the other, Anoplotherium, or beast without weapons, thereby im- 
plying its distinguishing character, its want of canine teeth. 
Much of this information was yielded him by the teeth alone ; but, 
in addition to these, he became possessed of other different bones of 
these animals, and particularly of the bones of the feet, by which the 
conjectures which he had already formed, respecting the nature of 
these animals, obtained a considerable degree of confirmation : but as 
he had found the heads belonging to two genera, one with and the 
other without canine teeth ; so he also found the feet of two genera, 
one with three complete toes, and the other with two. 
