ITS CHARACTERISTIC ANIMALS. 
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the same time, in the same locality, were found 
other bones and teeth also, differing from those 
first discovered, and yet equally unlike those of 
any living animal. The first evidently belong- 
ing to some stout and heavy animal, the others 
were more slender and of lighter build. From 
these fragments, ample evidence to him of his 
results, he drew the outlines of two animals : 
one which he called the Palaeotlierium (old 
Palaeotherium. 
animal), a figure of which is given in the above 
wood-cut, and the other Anoplotherium (animal 
without fangs). He presented these figures with 
an explanatory memoir at the Academy, and an- 
nounced them as belonging to some creation pre- 
ceding the present, since no such animals had 
ever existed in our own geological period. Such 
a statement was a revelation to the scientific 
world : some looked upon it with suspicion and 
distrust ; others, who knew more of comparative 
anatomy, hailed it as introducing a new era in 
