Essay on the theory of the earth / Translated from the French of M. Cuvier by Robert Kerr ... With mineralogical notes, and an account of Cuvier's geological discoveries, by Professor Jameson.

  • Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832.
Date:
1813
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    in the natural method, and concludes with an account of the fossil bones of Lamantins and Seals. The very general view we are now taking of this: work, prevents us from doing more than noticing the fossil re- mains of these palmated quadrupeds, mentioned by our author. He describes two fossil species of /amantin found in the coarse marine limestone of the department of the Maine and Loire: This limestone, besides these osseous remains, contains abundance of sea-shells. In the same limestone, and in the same country, Cuvier found the fossil remains of a species of seal, nearly three times the size of the common seal, the phoca vitulina, and another somewhat less. The thirteenth. Memoir treats of the fossil remains of oviparous quadrupeds. M. Cuvier, in this most valuable paper, describes the different species of living crocodiles, and dweils particu- larly on their osteology ; and the fossil crocodiles are mi- nutely examined and described. From the accounts here published, it appears that two extinct species of fossil erocodiles, nearly allied to the gavial, or gangetic croco- dile, occur in a pyritical bluish-grey compact limestone, at the bottom of the cliffs of Honfleur and Havre; that one of these species at least is found in other parts of France, as at Alençon and elsewhere. 2. That the.ske- leton of a crocodile, discovered at the bottom of a cliff of pyritical slate, about half a mile from Whitby, by Captain