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containing the description of a new species of armoured fish-like 

 creature, Ptcraspis dewalquii, from the Gedinnien stage of 

 Belgium, and likewise a notice of a remarkable type of ventral 

 shield from the Taunusien schists assigned to the British 

 Pt. crouchi. 



An important faunistic paper is one by Dr. Lucien Maget, 

 on the Miocene mammals from the sands of the Orleannais, 

 and the Faluns of Touraine, published in the twenty-fourth volume 

 of the medical section of the Annates de lUniversite de Lyon. 

 Full descriptions are given of remains of all the previously 

 known species, while nine species are described as new. 



