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extinct genus not corresponding exactly to any recent family of plants, 

 but coming very near the Cycads in anatomical structure, and pro- 

 bably holding a position between Cycads and Ferns, but nearer to 

 the former. 



Em IN" Pasha. 



The Bevlinev Tageblatt for April 5 publishes a letter from its 

 special correspondent, dated Fort Kampala, Uganda, December 14, 

 1892, which tends to confirm the rumours of the death of Emin 

 Pasha. According to the letter, news had reached Fort Kampala 

 that Emin Pasha marched from Kavalli to Masamboni, and thence to 

 the Ituri river, on the banks of which he was attacked by a body of 

 Manyema and killed. The correspondent of the Tageblatt further 

 reports having met an Egyptian official, named Awad EfFendi, on his 

 way to the coast, who informed him that he was present with Emin 

 in Masamboni's country, and added that Emin Pasha and all his 

 followers had been murdered on the Ituri river by Manyema, under 

 the leadership of an Arab named Ismail. Awad Effendi believed that 

 the murder was committed on March 12 or 13, 1892. — Renter. This 

 may be another version of the rumour to which we referred in July ; at 

 present, we cannot be sure of the accuracy of the information. 



The Affinities of Zeuglodon. 



In the last issue of the Pyoc. Zool. Soc, Mr. Lydekker describes 

 an interesting series of Cetacean remains from the Eocene of the 

 Caucasus. Among these, special importance attaches to certain 

 bones belonging to the imperfectly-known creature designated 

 Zeuglodon, which, as our readers are doubtless aware, Professor 

 D'Arcy Thompson has recently endeavoured to remove from its 

 assigned pKjsition among the whales to associate it with the seals. 

 The most important specimen among the new find is a humerus, of 

 which but one example has been hitherto known, and the study of 

 this leads the author to conclude that Zeuglodon is much more likely to 

 be an ancestral Cetacean than a Seal. Doubtless, however, Professor 

 Thompson will have a word to say on the subject. Scarcely less in- 

 teresting is the discovery of a skull in the same deposits, indicating a 

 Cetacean nearly allied to the existing Iiiia and Pontoporia of the South 

 American rivers. We regret that the artist has scarcely done justice 

 to the author's specimens. 



New Monkeys. 



It is probably a unii^ue feature in a single number of the 

 serial just mentioned to find three new species of monkeys described 

 and illustrated with coloured plates. Two of these belong to the 

 Oriental genusSemnopithecus, and the third to the Ethiopian Cercopithecus. 



