6. Mammalia. II. Ordres, Families and Genera. 1175 



8. Equidae. 



Hliet, Note sur le croisement dos diverses especes du genre cheval et description d'un hybride 

 d'Hemione et de Dauw. in: Nouv. Arch, du Museum d'Hist. Nat. 2. Serie. T. 2. 

 Fasc. 1. 1879. p. 4653. pi. 4. 



In a paper on the Recent and Extinct polydactyle Horses, 0. C. Marsh gives the 

 following Genealogy of the Horse, viz: Recent: Equus, - -Pliocene: PlioJnppu* 

 and Protohippus (Hipparion), - - Miocene: Miohippus (Anchitherium) and Meso- 

 hippits, - -Eocene; Orohippns. The Am. Jonrn. of Sc. and Arts, B.Ser. Vol. 17. 

 1879. p. 505, with woodcuts representing the fore and hind-foot, the fore-arm, 

 leg, upper-molar and lower-molar of the above cited genera. 



Thomas, Ph., Note sur quelques Equides fossiles des environs de Constantine. Revue des 

 Sc. nat. 2. Serie. 1S79. T. 1. Nr. 3. p. 335351. with a woodcut. 



Enumerates the following species: Hipparion, Equus stcnonis? Equi/s c<il><tllus, 

 Equide asiiiifonne. 



Hartmann, 11., Ziihne von Equinen aus der Gegend von Cairo. Sitzungsber. Gesellsch. naturf. 

 Freunde. Berl. 1879. Nr. 7. p. 111113. 



9. Belluae. 



Dawkins, Boycl and J. M. Mello, Discoveries in the Crcsswell Caves, in : Hardwicke's 



Science-Gossip. 1 879. p. 1SS. 



Bones of Hippopotamus and of the Leptorliine li/u'noccros were found. 

 Pomel, A., Ossements d'Elephants et d'Hippopotames decouvei'ts dans unc station prehi- 

 storique de la plaine d'Eghis, province d'Oran. in: Bull. Soc. Geol. de France. T. 7. 

 Nr. 1. 2. p. 44 51. (Not seen by the Rec.) 



Trouessart, E. L., Une lettre de M. Cope (de Philadelphie) au sujet d'une question de pri- 

 orite relative a 1'emploi des norns de Dinoceras et de Brontotherium. Le Naturaliste 

 Nr. 1. 1. Avril 1ST'.), p. 24. 



Cope states that Brontotherium perhaps = Titanotherium Leidy - Mcnodus 

 Pomel, and Dinoceras = Uintat/icrii/m Leidy. The latter name has the priority. 



Fam. Elephantidae. 



Issel, A.. Descrizione di due denti d'Elefante raccolti nella Liguria occidentale. irr: Ann. 

 (k'l Mus. Civ. di Stor. Nat. di Geneva. Vol. 14. IsT'.i. p. 153169. with four 

 woodcuts. 



Two molars of Elephas primigenius. 

 IVIojsisovicz, Aug. von, Zur Kenntnis des africanischen Elephanten. in: With 3 plates. 



Arch. f. Naturgesch. 45. Jahrg. I. Heft. p. 50 92. 



Forbes, W. A., On the Anatomy of the African Elephant (Elephas nfricunus). in: Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1S79. p. 420 435, with several woodcuts. 



From an anatomical point of view there appears little ground to separate Lo- 

 xodon as a genus from Euelephas. 

 Tusks and molars of Elephas primiyenius found in London, Charing Cross, in : Hardwici. 



Science-Gossip. 1879. p. 138. 



Dawkins, W. Boyd, On the Range of the Mammoth in Space and Time, in: The Quarterly 

 journal of the geol. Soc. London. l.Fcbr. 1879. p. 13S 147. 

 This interesting paper is divided as follows : 1. Introduction. 2. The Mam- 

 moth Preglacial in the South of England. 3". The Mammoth Preglacial in Scot- 

 land. 4. The Mammoth Preglacial in Cheshire. r>. The Mammoth a member of 

 the Fauna of the Forest-bed. 6. The Mammoth Postglacial and Glacial in Bri- 

 tain. 7. Range in Europe, Asia and America. 8". Relation In Indian Elephant. 



