Mazuyer showed the skeleton of the pretended Teutobocchus in all the cities of France and Germany, and also to Louis XIII., who took great interest in contemplating this marvel. It gave rise to a long controversy, or rather an interminable dispute, in which the anatomist Riolan distinguished himself--arguing against Habicot, a physician, whose name is all but forgotten. Riolan attempted to prove that the bones of the pretended king were those of an Elephant. Numerous pamphlets were exchanged by the two adversaries, in support of their respective opinions. We learn also from Gassendi, that a Jesuit of Tournon, named Jacques Tissot, was the author of the notice published by Mazuyer. Gassendi also proves that the pretended medals of Marius were forgeries, on the ground that they bore Gothic characters. It seems very strange that these bones, which are still preserved in the cases of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where anybody may see them, should ever have been mistaken, for a single moment, for human remains. The skeleton of Teutobocchus remained at Bordeaux till 1832, when it was sent to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where M. de Blainville declared that it belonged to a Mastodon. [Illustration: Fig. 166.--Skeleton of Mesopithecus.] [Illustration: Fig. 167.--Mesopithecus restored. One-fifth natural size.] The Apes made their appearance at this period. In the ossiferous beds of Sansan M. Lartet discovered the _Dryopithecus_, as well as _Pithecus antiquus_, but only in imperfect fragments. M. Albert Gaudry was more fortunate: in the Miocene rocks of Pikermi, in Greece, he discovered the entire skeleton of _Mesopithecus_, which we present here (Fig. 166), together with the same animal restored (Fig. 167). In its general organisation it resembles the dog-faced baboon or ape, a piece of information which has guided the artist in the restoration of the animal. * * * * * The seas of the Miocene period were inhabited by great numbers of beings altogether unknown in earlier formations; we may mention no less than ninety marine genera which appear here for the first time, and some of which have lived down to our epoch. Among these, the molluscous Gasteropods, such as _Conus_, _Turbinella_, _Ranella_, _Murex_ (Fig. 169), and _Dolium_ are the most abundant; with many Lamellibranchiata. [Illustration: Fig. 168.--Cerithium plicatum.] [Illustration: Fig. 169.--Murex Turonensis.] [Illustration: Fig. 170.--Ostrea longirostris. One quarter natural size. Living form.] The Foraminifera are also represented by new genera, among which are the Bolivina, Polystomella, and Dentritina.