252 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



REMAINS OF THE "WOLVERINE. 



An interesting discovery has lately been made in England 

 of the detection in a bone cave of the remains of the wolver- 

 ine, or glutton. This, according to a correspondent in JVa- 

 tare, is of the greatest interest, as occurring in a region where 

 bones of the reindeer, moose, etc., had previously been found, 

 and upon which this animal in pre-historic, as now in more 

 modern, times was accustomed to feed. 12 A, March 30, 

 1871,425. 



NEW EOSSIL MAMMALS. 



Professor Leidy has lately announced to the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences the existence of some new fos- 

 sil mammals from the tertiary formations of "Wyoming Terri- 

 tory. One was a lower jaw, discovered by Dr. J. Van A. 

 Carter, in the vicinity of Fort Bridger. The animal to which 

 it belonged was as large as a hog, but was more nearly allied 

 to the rhinoceros or tapirs. It was especially remarkable for 

 the possession of a large pair of front teeth, resembling, both 

 in form and construction, the incisors of the beaver. The 

 name proposed for it was Trogurus castoroideus, or the bea- 

 ver-toothed gnawing-hog. Another of the fossils indicates a 

 carnivorous animal, a contemporary of the former, and about 

 the size of the gray fox. The animal was related to the wea- 

 sel and canine families, and was called Sinopa rapax, the 

 former name being that applied by the Blackfeet Indians to 

 a small fox. 



Professor Leidy also exhibited photographs of the lower 

 part of the jaw of the American mastodon, recently received 

 from Professor W.C.Kerr, state geologist of North Carolina. 

 The jaw was found in Lenoir County of that state. It be- 

 longed to a mature male, and was of special interest from its 

 retaining both tusks, as well as the molar teeth. 2 D, May 

 16,1871. 



ON THE EXTINCT BATRACHIAN FAUNA OF OHIO. 



At a late meeting of the American Philosophical Society 

 Professor Cope made a communication upon the extinct ba- 

 trachian fauna of the carboniferous formation of Linton, Ohio, 

 based upon material obtained by Professor J. S. Newberry, di- 



