[29] MM. de Marschall, in their Researches respecting the Origin and Development of the present order of the World. Giessen, 1802.

[30] Bertrand,—Periodical Renewal of the Terrestrial Continents. Hamburgh, 1799.

[31] My work has, in fact, proved how far this inquiry was yet new when I commenced it, notwithstanding the excellent labours of Camper, Pallas, Blumenbach, Merk, Sömmering, Rosenmüller, Fischer, Faujas, Home, and other learned men, whose works I have most scrupulously cited in such of my chapters as their researches are connected with.

[32] This is more particularly noticed in the Chapter on Elephants in the first volume of Professor Cuvier’s Recherches.

[33] See the history of the Rhinoceros in the first part of the second volume of Professor Cuvier’s Recherches.

[34] See the chapter on the Hippopotamus, in the first volume of Recherches.

[35] Hist. Anim. Lib. ii. cap. 1.

[36] Jul. Capitol., Gord. iii. cap. 23.

[37] Antilope Gnu, Gmel.

[38] Pliny, Lib. viii. cap. 32.; and Ælian, Lib. vii. cap. 5.