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with Chili, at which date the present Central America and 

 the northern portion of South America were submerged. Many 

 lines of evidence, it is argued, support the existence of such 

 a narrow land-bridge and without this the author finds it 

 difficult to account for the presence of primitive armadillos in 

 the North American Eocene and likewise the intimate relation- 

 ship believed to exist between the genus Stiromys of the Santa 

 Cruz Miocene and the modern Canadian porcupine {Erethizon). 



In a second paper, published in vol. xxviii. of the Proceedings 

 of the Royal Irish Academy, the same author reviews the 

 evidence in favour of a former land-connection between North 

 America and Northern Europe. The author, who believes the 

 connection to have existed during the pre-Glacial epoch, cites 

 evidence derived both from soundings and from certain elements 

 of the fauna of the two continents, laying special stress on 

 the fact that the distributional area of the fresh-water members 

 of the perch family includes Central and Eastern North America 

 and stretches from the British Isles to Eastern Siberia, but stops 

 short of the Bering Strait district and Kamchatka. 



Turning to papers of a general faunistic character, attention 

 may be directed to Dr. L. Mayet's review of the mammaliferous 

 horizons of the typical Faluns of the Touraine, issued in the 

 medical section of the Annates of the University of Lyons, 

 fascicule No. 26. Among other specimens described and figured, 

 special interest attaches to a newly discovered fragment of the 

 lower jaw of the Tertiary gibbon (Pliopithecus antiquus). 



As it arrived too late for notice in the article on the 

 palaeontological work of 1908, I may also refer to a much 

 more bulky memoir by the same author, issued in the same 

 serial (fascicule No. 24, 1908), on the Miocene mammals of the 

 Sands of the Orleanais and one portion of the Faluns of the 

 Touraine. This includes a detailed account of all the previously 

 known species, with a description of several regarded as new, 

 and likewise full information with regard to their topographical 

 distribution. 



Pleistocene mammal remains from Gesprengberg, in the 

 Kronstadt district of Siebengeburge, form the subject of a 

 paper by Dr. Towler, published in vol. lix. pp. 575, 614 of the 

 Jahrbuch der k. k. Geol. Reichanstalt at Vienna. Several of the 

 animals from this deposit are identified, with existing species, 

 but a wolf is described as new and the same is the case with 



