List of Patents. 391 



Stelleres ought to form a distinct order which connects the Pachy- 

 derms and Cetacese, but which can be united to neither of these. 



We ought to add that the figure, given by the author, of the lower 

 jaw of a newly-born Lamentin appears to us very interesting from 

 the obvious resemblance in its form to that of the Dinotherium, 

 although it presents, in the part which is inflected at the base, six 

 sockets of incisive teeth, which are wanting in the fossil genus. In 

 adult Lamentins, the extremity of the jaw partly loses its curvature 

 and proportionate size, and the analogy which we have pointed out 

 becomes less evident. — (Bihloth. JJniv.de Geneve. Supplement ^^o. 

 vi., p. 216.) 



27. Memoirs on the Capra Pudu and Equus Bisulcus of Mo- 

 lina. By MM. Gay and P. Gervais (Ann. des Sc. Nat.y Feb- 

 ruary 1846). — ^Molina, in his essay on the Natural History of Chili, 

 has referred to the genus of goats, and describes, under the name of 

 Capra pudu, a small ruminant which systematic authors have had 

 difficulty in referring to its true genus. This animal, named Venado 

 by the Spaniards, has successively been regarded as a goat, a sheep, 

 and an antelope. MM. Gay and Gervais shew in this article that 

 it is a small stag allied to the Cervus rufus and nemoinvagus, and 

 that it is probably the same species as the female which lived in the 

 Zoological Gardens of London, and which has been described by 

 Bennett under the name of Cervus humilis. 



The same work of Molina contains some details respecting an 

 animal which this author names the Gemul or Equus bisulcus. His 

 description shews that he has no reason for referring it to the horse 

 tribe, and the mammifer indicated by this name is, like the pre- 

 ceding, a true stag, but of much larger size. It approaches the 

 Cervus antisiensis found by M. D'Orbigny in the Bolivian Andes, 

 and it appears to form a new species, which the authors of this 

 memoir name Cervus Chiliensis. These same naturalists are of 

 opinion that it is necessary to add two others, the Cervus Spinosus 

 and C. Goudotii, to the list of species now known in South America. 

 M, Gay will describe their characters in the mammalogical part of 

 the History of Chili, which is publishing in the Spanish language. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 2Sd December 1846 

 to 22d March 1847. 



1. To Eugene Bazile, of Rouen, in the kingdom of France, manufac- 

 turer, being a communication from abroad, " improvements in obtaining 

 heat during the manufacturing of coke, and applying such heat to vari- 

 ous purposes.'' — 23d December 1S46. 



2. To James Napier, of Shacklewell, in the county of Middlesex, 



