. Le musée d'histoire naturelle, avec un essai d'introduction sur l'histoire naturelle du monde primitif : étant un compte-rendu populaire de la structure, des habitudes, et de la classification des différents départements du royaume animal, quadrupèdes, oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, coquillages, et insectes, y compris les insectes destructeurs à l'agriculture . iththe dentition, qui, comme nous l'avons vu, est même moreffrugivore que carnivore. La majorité des thespecies sont des animaux épaissis, épaissis, et quand attackedor excité, ils prennent freijueutly une attitude ujidroite, se battant et frappant au vu de leurs puissantes bauds. Ils

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. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . iththe dentition, which, as we have seen, is even morefrugivorous than carnivorous. The majority of thespecies are stout, thickset animals, and when attackedor excited, they freijueutly assume an ujiright attitude, fighting and striking witli their powerful bauds. Theypass the winter in a senii-tor]iid half-starving condition, retreating for this purpose into dens and holes whiclithey have excavated among the rocks. Fossil remainsof bears have been found in the newest tertiary oipleistocene deposits, and in caverns referable to thesubsequent glacial iieriod. Among the several extinctforms at present known, the Great Cavern Bear {Urstisspdavs) appears to have been the largest, beingprobably about one-fifth more bulky than any speciesnow living. Caverns containing these remains occurin England, at Kents Hole near Torquay, in Devon-shire; also in Essex, Norfolk, Yorkshire, andCambridgu-shire ; as well as in various parts of Germany, Italy, and the south of France. , <4- J, V n $iiMi^ ¥/. The Itatel (MeUlvora capensis). THE RATEL {Mdlivora co^jops/s).—Following outCuviers arrangement as far as possible, we place thisinteresting animal among the bears ; yet, at the sametime, we are fully aware that not only the ratel, butalso several of the succeeding forms, exhibit, in astructural point of view, many important features incommon with the Mustelidce. On scientific groundsa distinct groip might be formed, osculant betweenthe two families; these refinements, however, as wellas the more complicated classifications of some recentnatural history authorities, would ill serve our present l)urpo3e. The ralel (fig. 20) is an Inhabitant of theCape of G

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