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Compared with the foregoing, the rest of the year's work on 

 fossil mammals appears insignificant ; as a matter of fact, it is 

 distinctly below the average in interest and importance. 



As standing on the border-land between zoology and 

 palaeontology, brief reference may be made to the handsome 

 volume by Messrs. Rio, Breuil, and Sierra on the mural 

 sketches of animals from Spanish caves, published under the 

 auspices of the Prince of Monaco. In connexion with this may 

 be noticed the identification by Mr. E. P. Newberry (Klio, vol. xii. 

 pp. 397 et seq.) of " the animal of Set " or Typho, so frequently 

 represented in ancient Egyptian frescoes, with the wart-hog 

 (Phacochoerus africanus). Many previous attempts at the 

 identification of the animal in question — which has been con- 

 sidered to represent the okapi — have been made, but the 

 controversy now seems to be finally decided. 



Hitherto there has been a gap in our knowledge of the 

 forms of the horse existing between the modern period and 

 the early metal age. This is to some extent filled by the dis- 

 covery of a skeleton in the superficial formations of Neukolln 

 (formerly Rixdorf), near Berlin. According to Dr. Max 

 Hilzheimer {Zool. Anz. vol. xl. pp. 105-17), this skeleton 

 indicates a small but well-formed breed of the western type 

 akin to the existing so-called " Reitpferd." 



The same author also describes {Zeits. Morph. u. Anthrop. 

 vol. xv. pp. 229-46) remains of a dog and other domesticated 

 animals from a stratum of the third or fourth century at 

 Paulinenaue, Mark. 



The Vienna University recently sent an expedition to collect 

 fossil mammals from the well-known deposits of Pikermi, 

 Attica ; a report on the results is contributed by Dr. O. Abel in 

 the Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. PVien, vol. lxii. pt. 2, pp. 61-3 



The same author, it may be mentioned here, has published 

 {Zool. Jahrb. 191 2, suppl. 15, Bd. i. pp. 597-609) notes on 

 adaptation in extinct animals. 



The Miocene mammalian fauna of Venice is reviewed, with 

 a number of illustrations, by Mr. Stefanini in the first part of 

 a new serial, Mem. 1st. Geol. Padova, vol. i. pp. 267-318. 



In Australia Mr. Glauert (Rec. W. Austral. Mus. vol. i. 

 pp. 37-46) gives a list of the fossil mammals found in the 

 miscalled Mammoth Cave; while Mr. J. Mahony {Victoria 

 Naturalist, vol. xxix. pp. 43-6) records the occurrence of 



