MAMMALIA. .) 



Official Report of the twenty -first Meeting of German 

 Naturalists and Physicians at Gratz, in September, 1843, 

 Edited by the Secretaries of the Association, Dr. Langer 

 and A. Schroter. Gratz, 1844. 



Little of importance in zoology was produced at j this meeting. An inter- 

 esting communication was made by Kroyer on the relation between animal 

 life in the polar, and in the tropical seas. (p. 178.) 



Ninth Annual Report of the Mannheim Natural History 

 Society. Mannh. 1843. 



Kiliau has again described several relics of the ancient world, and illus- 

 trated them with figures : skull of a Mammoth, lower jaw of Mephas pri- 

 migenius, skull of Rhinoceros tichoriims, skull of Hi/cena spehea, horns of the 

 Reindeer. 



Actes de la Societe Helvetique des Sciences Naturelles, 

 reuuie a Lausanne les 24, 25, et 26 Juillet, 1843. 28e Ses- 

 sion. Lausanne, 1843. 



Another delightful proof of the great activity of the Swiss naturalists. 

 Besides the papers read at the general session, an epitome is also given of 

 those of the cantonal Societies in Bale, Berne, Geneva, Niinberg, Waadt, 

 and Zurich. Lucerne and Freiberg are again silent in this department, and 

 besides these Valais must be omitted. 



Report of the thirteenth Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 1844. 



In our department, the Palaeontology is clu'efly deserving of notice. Owen 

 lus given a long report on the English Hcrbivora, 



Reports of the Council and Auditors of the Zoological 

 Society of London, read at the Annual General Meeting, 

 April 29, 1843. London, 1843. 



The receipts of the society in the year IS 12 amounted to the sum of 

 10,087, and the disbursements to 9721. Compared with that of the pre- 

 vious year the income was diminished by 1523, partly in consequence of a 

 diminution in the number of members, and partly from a falling oif in the 

 money paid for admission into the gardens. This diminution is explicable on 

 the supposition that many of the visitors had at first been attracted by 

 novelty and fashion, so that a more permanent public had only now been 

 formed. These gardens are of the highest importance for the advancement 

 of zoology, as well as for the knowledge of the internal structure of the 

 more rare, or at least of the more costly animals, and consequently it is to 

 be wished that they may nourish to the greatest extent. 



