INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1875. ccvii 



meeting of the Zoological Society of London. They are con- 

 tained in the original manuscript of a journal kept during 

 the voyage of a Dutchman to Mauritius in 1601-1602. 

 Among the birds also represented were Aphanapteryx brcecki 

 and Psittacus mauritiamis. The figures of the Dodo, rough 

 as they are, "must have been drawn by no ordinary hand, 

 and evidently from the life. The various attitudes in which 

 the bird is represented certainly assist us in forming a con- 

 ception of what it must have been like." 



Notes on Falco labradorus and other specks, by H. G. 

 Dresser ; on Peruvian birds by Mr. Sclater, and other pa- 

 pers, anatomical and descriptive, by Rowley, Ganod, Mivart, 

 Sharpe, Whiteley, Layard, Salvin, Sclater, and others, occur 

 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



Contributions to the anatomy of the mammals are con- 

 tained in an elaborate memoir on the Daman by M. George, 

 published with a number of plates in the Annates des /Sci- 

 ences Naturelles. Professor W. S. Barnard has compared the 

 muscles of man with those of the higher apes, showing the 

 points of similarity as well as of difference. A point made in 

 this paper was the statement that one of the buttock muscles 

 supposed to be peculiar to the higher apes, distinguishing 

 them from man, really existed in the human body, and in a 

 similar position. It was shown that the muscle thus de- 

 scribed by Traill, and afterward by Wilder, as existing in the 

 chimpanzee, and by Owen and Bischoff in the orang, and by 

 Coues in the opossum, is also found in man, and offers no 

 distinction in this respect. His investigations tend to prove 

 that all the muscles possessed by man can be traced back- 

 ward in the lower form of animals, through the apes to the 

 lemuroids. 



The indications of descent exhibited by North American 

 Tertiary mammals have been shown by Professor Cope in the 

 gradual development from one form to another by changes 

 in the foot bones through a long series, beginning with the 

 extinct Tertiary mammals, and ending with those of the pres- 

 ent day. A similar process of change was traced in the 

 teeth of animals, the simpler forms of teeth in the Eocene 

 formation being a crown with four tubercles. The human 

 skeleton, he declares, retains many more ancient types than 

 other mammalia. 



