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the Storsjo, in Jemtland. According to the Reporter's opinion, both these 

 kinds of Hare should be regarded as constant varieties, one of which has its 

 chief abode in the north, the other in the south.. Sundevall distinguishes 

 both his Hares from L. glacialis, which has only one tuft of black hairs upon 

 the tips of the ears (this being the case also in both our specimens of L. 

 glacialis, one whereof is derived from Labrador), the claws broad, obtuse, 

 depressed at the apex, and hinder feet shorter by about oue inch. Close ad- 

 measurements of seventeen specimens of the L. borealis and eight of L. 

 canesceus are subjoined. 



EDENTATA. 



Gray (Ann. of Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 70) establishes upon two specimens 

 of Western Africa a new species of Pangolin, Manis multiscutata, which 

 is distinguished from M. tetradactyla (M. lougicaudata) by a shorter tail 

 (one and a half length of body), by double the number of scale-rows 

 (23), and by more pointed triangular scales. The Reporter would here 

 remind the reader that this species is identical with M. tricuspis. Suud., 

 and the latter name is to be applied. Two other specimens of the same 

 species obtained by Eraser, from Fernando Po, have been brought by 

 him to England. (Ann. xiii, p. 227.) He kept them some time alive, and 

 had, therefore, an opportunity of making some remarks upon their habits. 



SOLIDUNGULA. 



Interesting anatomico-physiological remarks upon the 

 Horse's foot have been published by Tscherning in Fdrhandl. 

 rid. de Skand. Naturf. Stockh.1843, p. 693; Isis, 1845,8.454. 



PACHYDERMATA. 



Owen, in his Hist, of Brit. Foss. Mamm. p. 218, has given 

 an elaborate memoir upon Elephas primiyenius. 



It is not merely Limited to the fossil remains that have been found in 

 England, but enters at the same time into a general and critical investigation 

 of the peculiarities of this remarkable creature belonging to the primary world. 



In the 'Bullet, de 1'Acad. de Petersb.' ii, p. 16, is contained a notice of 

 the fresh carcase of a Mammoth having been found (1840) in a frozen state, 

 on the shore of the Tas river, and conveyed thence to Tobolsk. Pick 

 (Miiller's Archiv, f. Anat. S. 431) examined the labyrinth of the Elephant, 

 whereby he found that the cochlea is so flat, that its cupola projected but 

 very slightly above the level of the largest semicircular canal, and that a 



