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the female of the same species by Lamb (Ann. and Mag. 

 No. 86). 



Vertebrata. — Collections of fishes are described, one of fresh- 

 water species from Sierra Leone by Boulenger, and one from 

 Lagos by Regan (Ann. and Mag. Nos. 86 and 85). Thomas 

 has a series of papers on new species of Emballonnra, bats of 

 the genera Nyctalus, Tylonycteris, and Pipistrellus, new species 

 of Lencouve, and a new shrew, Blarinella zvardi {Ann. and Mag. 

 Nos. 85, 86, and 87). Dollman revises the East African Swamp- 

 Rats, otomys (Ann. and Mag. No. 85). 



Lydekker in a paper investigates the problem of " The 

 True Coracoid," and homologises the bone of that name in birds 

 and post-Triassic reptiles with the coracoid process in man and 

 the coracoid of Monotremes (Proc. Zool. Soc). The feet and 

 glands of Vivirrinas are described by Pocock (Proc. Zool. Soc). 

 Degeneration in the teeth of oxen and sheep is dealt with by 

 Jackson (Ann. and Mag. No. 87). 



A preliminary notice of a new longirostral mastodon is 

 given b}^ Barbour, and Gardner discusses the relation of the 

 late Tertiary faunas of the Yorktown and Duplin formations 

 (Amcr. Jour. Sci.). South Africa has provided us with many 

 valuable fossil forms, and Haughton has continued his " Investi- 

 gations in South African Fossil Reptiles and Amphibia" by a 

 series of four papers (Annals o/S. A. Museum, January 191 5), 

 in which new species of Tremalosaurus, Dinocephalia, Thero- 

 cephalia, and Anomodontia are described. 



Cunningham describes certain rather remarkable forms that 

 may be produced by pouring molten paraffin wax on to water, 

 and bear some resemblance to the shells of molluscs. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. By A. G. Thacker, A.R.C.Sc, Public Museum, 

 Gloucester. 



Last summer yet another lower jaw of the Neandertal type 

 was discovered, and the specimen was to have been exhibited 

 to a congress of anthropologists at Hildesheim in August, but 

 the congress had to be abandoned owing to the war. Descrip- 

 tions of the fossil have, however, now been published. An 

 account has been written by Prof. G. Schwalbe of Strassburg 

 (Anal. Anzeiger, vol. 47, p. 337, 1914), and a short but excellent 

 article on the subject, with illustrations, is contributed to the 

 American Anthropologist (vol. 17, No. 1, January to March 191 5), 



