6. Mammalia. I. The General Subject. 1165 



Marsh, O. C., Notice of New Jurassic Mammals, in: American Journ. of Sc. and Arts. 



Vol. 18. Nov. 1879. p. 396399. With a woodcut. 

 Four new species and one new genus. 



Marsh, O. C., History and methods of palaeontological Discovery. An address delivered be- 

 fore the American Association for the Advancement of Science , at Saratoga. New 



York. 28. August, 1879. (ex Nature.) 

 Mello, J. M., See Dawkins, Boyd. 

 'Mtiller, V. von, Palaeontologische Beitrage und Erlauterungen zum Briefe Danilewsky's 



iiber die Resultate seiner Reise an den Manytsch. in: Bull. Acad. St. Pet. T. 25. 



Nr. 3. p. 245260. (Not seen by the Rec.) 

 'Mortillet, G. de, Sur 1'origine des animaux domestiques. Communication faite a la Societe 



d'Anthropologie a propos de la discussion sur 1'origine des Aryas. Paris, Hennuyer. 



1879. 80. 15 p. (Not seen by Rec.) 

 "Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria : or, Figures and 



Descriptions of the living Species of all classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals. 



Melbourne, Geo. Robertson ; London, Triibner. 1879. gr.-8. Decade III : 2 Mammals. 



(Not seen by Rec.) 

 Nehring, A., Neue Notizen zur Kenntnis der fossilen Wirbelthierfauna aus den oberfran- 



kischen Hohlen. in: Zeitschr. fur die ges. Naturwiss. von Giebel. 52 Bd. p. 469 471. 

 -, Fossilreste kleiner Saugethiere aus dern Diluvium von Nussdorf bei Wien. in : Jahrb. 



der k. k. Reichsanstalt. 1879. 3. Heft. p. 474493. 

 "Neves, D.' Fernandez das, A Hunting Expedition to the Transvaal. Translated from the 



Portugese by Mariana Monteiro. London, George Bell & Son, 1879. (Not seen 



by the Rec.) 

 'Nicholson, H. Alleyne, A manual of Palaeontology. Second edition. With 722 engravings. 



Two volumes. 8. Edinburgh and London , William Blackwood and Sons. (Not 



seen by the Rec.) 

 Owen, Richard, On the Association of Dwarf Crocodiles with the Diminutive Mammals of 



the Purbeck Shales, in: Quart. Journ. of the Geol. Soc. London. 1. Febr., 1879. 



p. 148155. pi. 9. 

 "Packard, A. S. jr., Zoology for Students and general readers. With numerous Illustrations. 



New York, H. Holt & Co. 1879. 8t>. VIII, 719 p. (Not seen by the Rec. ) 



Pengelly, William (Reporter), Fourteenth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kent's 

 Cavern, Devonshire, in : Report of the forty-eighth Meeting of the Brit. Ass. for 

 the Adv. of Sc. 1879. p. 124130. 



A large number of teeth, jaws and other bones of bears, horses, hyaena, fox 

 were found. The specimens are not determinated. 



Peters, W., Ueber die von Herrn Dr. G. A. Fischer auf einer im J. 1S78 in Ost-Africa, von 

 Mombas bis in das Pokomo-Land und das siiclliche Galla-Land unternommenen Reise 

 eingesamnielten Saugethiere. in : Monatsb. der k. Pr. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin. 

 1879. p. 829833. With 5 pi. 



Sixteen species of Mammalia are collected, of which two new for science (vide 

 infra sub Colobus rufomitratus and Cercocebus galeritus] . 



Plunkett, Thomas, Report of the Committee, appointed for the purpose of exploring the 

 Fermanagh Caves, in : Report of the forty-eighth Meet, of the Brit. Assoc. for the 

 Adv. of Sc. 1879. p. 183186. 



Bones of the sheep, goat, Bos longifrons, red deer, wild boar, fox, dog, horse, 

 pig and rabbit were found in a large quantity. The species to which these bones 

 belong have not been named. 



*Ponzi, G., Le ossa fossili subappenine dei contorni di Roma, in: Atti R. Accad. Lincei. 

 Mem. Vol. 2. p. 709736. (Not. seen by the Rec.) 



