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belonged to it, to be about the size of a hare, and to have agreed in 
its structure with the feet of the preceding species. 
No remains of the hind-feet of Anoplotherium minimum were met 
with. 
A thigh-bone is frequently found in the plaster quarries, which 
differs from that of palceotlierium. Its upper part is flatter forwards, 
the neck is less distinct, the great trochanter is not raised above the 
head, the small trochanter is compressed, and placed entirely on the 
inner edge of the bone, beneath the head ; and it has no third tro- 
chanter. The general characters of this bone were found to agree better 
with the corresponding bone in the camel, than with that of any other 
animal ; agreeing, in this respect, with the large fossil didactyle foot 
above-mentioned. From the agreement also of that foot with this 
thigh-bone in size, he concludes that both may have belonged to the 
same animal, which he doubts not was Anoplotherium commune. 
From the same quarries was also obtained the lower head of an os 
femoris, undoubtedly of Anoplotherium medium, but resembling very 
much that of the antelope ; and, from other characters of the legs of 
this animal, there is also reason to suppose that it possessed all the 
lightness of the antelope. 
These quarries also supplied him with the tibiae of A. magnum, 
A. commune, and A. minus. Besides these, M. Cuvier found a tibia, 
which appeared to be intermediate between that of the A. commune 
and A. medium, the species of which is not yet determined. 
These animals, as well as the palceotheria, had a complete and dis- 
tinct fibula, in which they agree with the whole of the class of pachy- 
dermata : but, in these animals, this bone is distinguishable by its 
lower head having two articular faces ; one for the astragalus, and 
the other for the os calcis. 
Three carpal, and some metacarpal bones, which were found in 
different stones, appeared to be more or less analogous with those 
of a hog. A nice and careful comparison, however, made it appear 
