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the skull, lower jaw in part, os humeri, os femoris, and the last dorsal 
vertebra. The other bones having been found only under one form, 
it therefore cannot be decided to which of the two species they ought 
to be referred. 
Time and assiduous research may fill up these chasms ; but the ge- 
neral result is not less certain, in that which respects the existence, 
in these caverns, of bones of two species hitherto unknown among the 
living species of hears. 
The species with the raised forehead, Blumenbach, Rosenmuller, 
and Cuvier, agree in designating as Ursus spelceus ; and for that with 
the flat forehead Cuvier proposes the name U. arctoideus. 
The remains which I possess of these animals are, a perfect skull, 
the half of an under jaw, and several well preserved parts of very large 
jaws, all of which appear to have belonged to U. speleeus. 
LETTER XXXII. 
INQUIRY CONTINUED. ...REMAINS OF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS FOUND 
IN THE CAVERNS OF GERMANY, &C.. ..HYENA. ...IN GAYLENREUTH, 
CANSTADT, &C SPOTTED PANTHER ANIMAL RESEMBLING THE 
FOX....ZORILLA, OR POLECAT OF THE CAPE.... WOLF, OR DOG.. ..RE- 
MAINS OF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS FOUND IN THE PLASTER QUAR- 
RIES NEAR PARIS. ...SARIGUE OF AMERICA.. ..AN ANIMAL OF THE 
GENUS CANIS ONE APPROACHING TO THE CIVET ANOTHER, 
SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING THE LARGE OTTER ANOTHER, EN- 
TIRELY UNKNOWN. 
T he following observations on the fossil remains of those which may 
be more strictly regarded as carnivorous animals, are extremely in- 
teresting. Whilst placing them before you, I must again acknow- 
ledge my obligations to the zealous labours and perspicuous relations 
of M. Cuvier, who has assiduously worked, and with his usual success, 
the rich mine which lies open to him. 
