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memoir, by Mr. A. Borissiak, on the fossil mammals of the 

 Sebastopol district, published, with a French translation, in 

 part 87 of Mem. Com. Ge'ol. Russ. ser. 2. It comprises 154 pages 

 of text and ten quarto plates. This fauna, it appears, was 

 discovered in 1908 during the progress of some drainage-works, 

 and probably extends over a considerable area, as isolated 

 bones have been found in other parts of the city and its 

 environs. The deposit, which is very rich in bones, skulls, 

 and teeth, forms an ossiferous breccia, in the shape of lenticular 

 masses intercalated in a stratum of greenish white limestone. 

 No complete skeletons occur, the bones being mixed up pell-mell 

 in the bed. The fauna evidently corresponds to the Sarmatian 

 horizon of Russian Poland, and contains, among other forms, 

 representatives of the three-toed Hipparion, of hornless rhino- 

 ceroses (Aceratherium), and of the extinct antilopine genus 

 Tragoceros, together with a new generic type of the giraffe 

 family, for which the name Achtiaria is proposed. 



A summary of the fossil faunas and floras of Austria, by 

 Dr. F. Konig, was published during the year in Vienna, in 

 Osterreich. Zeitschrift filr Berg- unci Huttenwesen, 1914, Nos. 1, 

 2, and 4. Land vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, and 

 amphibians, occupy a considerable portion of this contribution, 

 which is illustrated with a double plate of restorations of some 

 of the larger and better-known species. Although the author 

 notes the poverty of Austrian fossil vertebrate faunas, as con- 

 trasted with those of many other countries, he has still been 

 able to make out a respectable list of fossiliferous horizons and 

 of genera by which they are represented. 



Here, too, may be appropriately mentioned an article b}' 

 Dr. W. D. Matthew, published in the Bull. Geol. Soc. America, 

 vol. xxv. pp. 38 et seq., relating to the bearing of the Palseocene 

 vertebrate fauna on the Cretaceous-Tertiar}' problem. But, in 

 spite of the fact that all Dr. Matthew's contributions to palae- 

 ontology teem with interest, this brief mention must suffice in 

 this instance, as the paper is rather off the line of the present 

 review. 



In South America Dr. H. von Ihering has contributed to 

 Notas Preliminares da Revista do Museu Paulista (vol. i. No. 3, 

 pp. 126-48) an article on the Cretaceous and Tertiary strata 

 of Argentina and the migrations of mammal-faunas on the 

 American continent. The alleged occurrence of placental 



