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I.—Notes on a Visit to the Royal Museum of Natural History at Brussels, with some account of the “Mammoth” discovered at Lierre, and reconstructed by M. Dupont

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Having had the good fortune to visit Brussels in January last, I availed myself of a few hours' delay to pay my respects to M. E. Dupont, the Director, and M. A. de Borre, the Secretary, of the Museum of Natural History in that city, by whom I was most kindly received and introduced to M. Henri Nyst (whose descriptions of the Tertiary formations of Belgium and tiieir invertebrate fauna have rendered his name familiar to almost every English geologist).

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page 194 note 1 For a description of the Antwerp Crag, see MrLankester's, E. Ray paper “On the Crag of Antwerp,” Geol. Mag., 1865, Vol. II., pp. 103–6 and 149–52Google Scholar; See also paper by Drvon Koenen, A., “On the Belgium Terharies,” Geol. Mag., 1867, Vol. IV., pp. 501507 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; On the Kainozoic Formations of Belgium,” by Godwin-Austen, R. A. C., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1866., vol. xxii., p. 228.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 194 note 2 See also the published memoirs of Prof, van Beneden, of Louvain, Memoires de l' Académie Royale de Bruxelles.

page 194 note 3 For a full account of this discovery, see the paper by M. Francis Scohy, “Bulletins de l' Académie de Belgique,” series ii., tome ix., p. 436, etc. From it these notes are partly derived.

page 196 note 1 That which accompanies Dr. Tilesius's paper, printed in London in 1819, is far from correct. See the remarks in my paper, already quoted, Geol. Mag., 1868, Vol. V., p. 540, PI. XXII. and XXIII. “On the Curvature of the Tusks in the Mammoth.”.

page 196 note 2 See Geol. Mag., 1866, Vol. III., p. 566, et seq. Google Scholar

page 197 note 1 See abstract of Prof. Busk's paper, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1867, vol. xxiii., p. 342, and Geol. Mag., 1867, Vol. IV., p. 418. It is much to be regretted that this important paper has not yet appeared in full, as it contained much valuable information, and was the result of long and careful study of the Bears.