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of the Austrian Geological Survey, vol. lxii. pp. 87-182. The 

 same subject, as exemplified by the affinities of the Pleistocene 

 European E. antiquus, forms the subject of an article by Mr. 

 Zuffardi in Atti. R. Ac. Lincei, ser. 2, vol. xxi. pp. 298-304. 



In 191 1 Dr. Schlesinger provisionally referred an elephant's 

 tooth from Lower Austria to the Siwalik E. planifrons ; this 

 determination he confirms in a later paper published in Verh. 

 Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. lxii. pt. 2, p. 55. Two unusually fine 

 skeletons of the mammoth have recently been placed on exhibi- 

 tion. The first of these, which is in the Museum at Stuttgart, 

 is reported to be the largest known, and was found at Steinheim, 

 in Swabia, in the summer of 1910. The tusks are of no very 

 great size, measuring 7^ ft. ; but the skeleton is remarkable for 

 the great relative length of the legs, especially the front pair, as 

 well as for the unusual width of the molars. The second 

 skeleton, which has been set up in the Volkerkunde Museum at 

 Leipzig, is nearly complete and has been described by Dr. J. 

 Felix in the Veroffentlichungen der Stddt. Mus. fiir Volkerkunde 

 for 191 2. In was discovered in December 1908 under a con- 

 siderable thickness of sand and clay, near Borna, its presence 

 being revealed by the tip of one of the tusks. This skeleton 

 stands 3*20 metres in height. 



Brief notice will suffice for a paper by Dr. A. Andreuxi 

 (Riv. Ital. Pal. vol. xviii. pts. 2 and 3, pp. 88-90) on remains of 

 E. meridionalis from the Italian Pliocene; and to a second, by 

 Dr. Pohlig {Bull. Soc beige Ge'ol. vol. xxvi. Proc. Verb. pp. 

 187-93), on a lower jaw of the American Mastodon americanus 

 with the left permanent tusk in situ. Dr. Pohlig appears to be 

 of opinion that this specimen is unique in this respect ; but an 

 example with the right tusk was recorded in 1886 by the present 

 writer {Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. iv. p. 21). 



Another mummified carcase of a rhinoceros has been dis- 

 covered in the ozokerit beds of Starunia, Galicia, which has 

 been described by Dr. Abel in the Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 

 vol. lxii. pts. 2, 3, pp. 79-82 ; the species in this instance being 

 the woolly Rhinoceros antiquitatis. 



During the year Mr. Ivar Sefve has made a further contribu- 

 tion to our knowledge of the extinct Equida? of South America, 

 in a memoir published in the K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handlinger (vol. 

 xlviii. No. 6). Among the groups recognised are Hyperhippidium 

 and Parahipparion ; a new species of the latter being named in 



