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agreement here offers itself to our observation. The pachydermata 
and the solipeds have no trace of an acromion ; and in the ruminants, 
although the spine projects most in its fore part, it is there suddenly 
truncated. It is only in the genus Camel that an exception has been 
found, the fore and outer angle of the spine being here prolonged into 
a true acromion ; and which is, indeed, more strongly marked in the 
lama than in the camel and dromedary. This agreement with the 
camel in this respect, corresponding with those resemblances which 
have been noticed in several other bones of this genus, assist in deter- 
mining this scapula to belong to the genus Anoplotherium. 
Fragments of a pelvis obtained from this quarry, and which resem- 
bled, in different points, that of the camel and of the tapir, are referred 
by M. Cuvier to this genus. 
Eight years were passed in the examination of different specimens 
from the Paris quarries, in which M. Cuvier obtained only separate 
bones, and in which he had not obtained any specimen which would 
positively confirm the disposition he had made of the two sets of feet 
with the two sets of jaws. At last, he was so fortunate as to obtain 
two skeletons, almost complete, of Anoplotherium commune , which 
confirmed, beyond conjecture, the arrangements which he had before 
made, of the detached bones, and which have been here adopted. 
The first was contained in several large stones from the quarry of 
Montmartre, and appeared to have been the entire skeleton of an ani- 
mal of the size of a small horse. The parts which M. Cuvier obtained 
were, a portion of the tail, the pelvis, ribs, two thirds of the os femoris, 
and some scattered bones of the hind-foot, with the two jaws. One 
side only of the skeleton was preserved, as is the case with all those 
of the large animals in these quarries ; being that, M. Cuvier supposes, 
on which the animal lay, the upper side being detached and removed 
before it became incrusted with the stone. It appears also, that in 
this interval, the fore extremity and a part of the hinder of the remain- 
ing side had been carried away, perhaps by some voracious animals. 
