MAMMALIA. 13 



Waltlier. (Journ. fiir Chirurgie und Augenheilk. von Dr. 

 Ph. v. Waltlier und v. Ammoii. 1843. p. 161.) 



The celebrated author of this paper had, as far back as in the year 1825, in 

 the ' Journal der Chirurgie,' at that time published by himself and Graefc 

 (viii. part i), referred to a considerable number of instances of pathological 

 changes iu bones, most of them being diseased conditions occurring in man 

 at the present time, such as necrosis, anchylosis, exostosis, caries, &c. The 

 femur above mentioned has been already described by Esper and the Reporter. 

 The author states that the disease of the bones, as it occurs in man at the 

 present day, analogous with and correlative to that presented by the above- 

 mentioned femur of the Cave Bear, has been described by Scarpa as " malig- 

 nant exostosis of expansion of the osseous tissue," and by Astley Cooper as 

 " internal fungous exostosis of the medullary membrane." Since they both, 

 however, apply the term " exostosis" too widely, the explanation is sub- 

 joined, that " should the present disease of the bone be termed exostosis, it 

 will, at all events, belong to the fungoid, and not to the cartilaginous exos- 

 toses, and, in fact, to those of the cancellated structure, or of the medullary 

 membrane, and not of the periosteum or of the shell of the bone." Tin's 

 disease is one of the more rare, and affords another remarkable proof of the 

 occurrence of diseases of the bones in the animals of the ancient world, in 

 exactly the same forms, and following the same laws as those which are met 

 with in animals of the present day. 



K. Lee, ' Taxidermy, or the Art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting 

 Objects of Natural History,' 6th Edit. 1843, as an Introduction to the Art 

 of " Stuffing" has been very well received in England. 



SIMLE. 



Description des Mammiferes nouveaux ou imparfaitement 

 connus de la collection du Mus:' d'Hist. Nat., et remarques 

 sur la classification et les caracteres des Mammiferes. 

 Premier Memoire. Famine des Singes, par M. Is. Geoffroy- 

 Samt-Hilaire. (Archives du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. ii, p. 485.) 



In this Memoir, which came before the Paris Academy in the course of 

 the year 1843 (Compt. rend, xvi, p. 1236 ; xvii, p. 280), Is. Geoffrey gives 

 1st. Remarks on the Systematic Arrangement and Characters of the Order of 

 MONKEYS. He criticises only the works which have appeared in France and 

 England on this subject; and, consequently, my Monograph on the Monkeys, 

 which lias been four years in print, is not mentioned with a single word. 



