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nature, and place these extinct genera in close connexion with the living orders of Mammalia.

We may estimate the number of the animals collected in the gypsum of Mont Martre, from the fact, stated by Cuvier, that scarcely a block is taken from these quarries which does not disclose some fragment of a fossil skeleton. Millions of such bones, he adds, must have been destroyed, before attention was directed to the subject.

The subjoined list of fossil animals found in the gypsum quarries of the neighbourhood of Paris, affords important information as to the population of this first lacustrine portion of the tertiary series.^[1] (See Pl. 1. Figs. 73 to 96.)

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   List of Vertebral Animals found in the Gypsum of the Basin of Paris.

   Pachydermata

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   Palæotherium

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   Extinct species, of extinct genera.

   Anoplotherium

   Cheropotamus

   Adapis

   Carnivora

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   Bat.

   Canis	$\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.$	Large Wolf, differing from say existing species.
   		Fox

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   Extinct species belonging to extinct genera.

   Coatis (Nasus, Storr), large Coati, now native of the warm parts of America.
   Racoon (Procyon, Storr), North America.
   Genette (Genetta, Cuv., Viverra Genetta, Linn.), now extending the South of Europe to Cape of Good Hope.

   Masupialia

   Opossum, small (Didelphis, Linn.), allied to the Opossum of North and South America.

   Rodentia

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   Dormouse (Myoxus, Gm.), two small species.

   Squirrel (Sciurus).

   Birds

   Birds, nine or ten species, referable to the following genera: Buzzard, Owl, Quail, Woodcock, Sea-Lark (Tringa), Curlew, and Pelican.

   Reptiles

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   Fresh-water Tortoises, Trionyx, Emys.

   Crocodile.

   Fishes

   Seven extinct species of extinct Genera

   Agass.