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arranges the glyptodonts in three families — Glyptodontidce, 

 Scleroscalyptidce, and Doedicuridce — but it may be suggested that 

 sub-family rank appears amply sufficient for these groups. 



A paper by Dr. J. Richter on the armature of the genus 

 for which the author retains the name Hoplophorus appeared in 

 the Palceontographica for 191 1 (vol. lvii. pp. 257-84, pts. xxii. and 

 xxiii.) but was omitted from my review of that year's work. 

 Another omission was a paper by Dr. Smith Woodward in the 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. (vol. lxvii. pp. 278-81, 191 1) on three 

 mammalian teeth from the Wealden of Hastings. Two of these 

 are referred to a previously described species, Plagiaulax 

 dawsoni; the third has been provisionally assigned to an 

 American Cretaceous genus with the new specific name of 

 Dipriodon valdensis. All three belong to the group of Multi- 

 tuberculata, which is included by some palaeontologists in the 

 marsupials while by others it is considered to be more nearly 

 related to the monotremes. 



Birds, as usual, have attracted little attention but there is a 

 memoir by Mr. Koloman Lambrecht on the fossil birds of the 

 Borsoder Bukh-Gebirges and Hungary originally published in 

 Aquila, vol. xix. pp. 270-320. The remains, however, are for 

 the most part from Pleistocene deposits and referable to ex- 

 isting species. They indicate the existence in Hungary during 

 the Pleistocene of Arctic steppe-like and tundra-like conditions ; 

 the occurrence of ptarmigan in the fauna being specially note- 

 worthy. 



A review of the bird-faunas— chiefly Pleistocene — of the 

 Pacific coast of North America is contributed by Mr. L. H. Miller 

 to the Bulletin of the Department of Geology of the University of 

 California. The chief faunas reviewed are those of the Potter's 

 Creek and Samwell Caves and the asphalt beds of Rancho la 

 Brea ; special attention being directed to their bearing on the 

 past and present geographical distribution of generic groups. 



The first paper relating to fossil reptiles for notice is one 

 by Mr. F. Broili (Zeits. deutsch. geol. Ges. vol. lxiv. pp. 492-500) 

 on a remarkably well-preserved skeleton of Pterodactylus 

 microynx discovered in the Kimeridgian Lithographic Stone of 

 Eichstadt, Bavaria, of which an illustration is given. The 

 structure of the wing of pterodactyles is discussed by Prof. 

 S. W. Williston in a paper published in the Journal of Geology, 



