1882.] 4:75 



FELID.E ; Machserodontinae ; Machmrodus, Smilodon ; Felinse ; PletJml- 

 urus (g. n.)*, Gatolynx ; Felis ; Neofelis ; Uncia,\ Lynx, Cyncelurus. 

 Hy^nid^, Hyomictis, Hymna, Grocuta. 



Stated Meeting, Oct. 6th, 1882. 



Present, 12 members. 



Dr. Cresson in tte Chair. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from tlie Eoyal 

 Society, Tasmania (90, 91), and the Surgeon General's Of&ce, 

 Washington (110, 111). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Meteorological 

 Office, London ; and the University Library, Cambridge, Eng- 

 land. 



A request for missing numbers in the set of the American 

 Philosophical Society Transactions and Proceedings in the li- 

 brary of the Geological Survey ot Canada, was referred to the 

 Librarian to report at the next meeting. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 

 mies at St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Turin, and Rome ; Swed- 

 ish Bureau of Statistics ; Christiania University; Royal Danish 

 Society ; Royal Observatory, Turin ; Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 Leipsig ; Revue Politique, Paris ; Meteorological Council, and 

 Nature, London ; Geological Society, Glasgow ; M. Douw 

 Lightfall, Montreal ; Natural History Society, Boston ; Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian Society, Worcester ; American Philological 

 Association; Free Public Library, New Bedford; American 

 Journal, New Haven ; N. Y. Meteorological Observatory ; 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences ; E. M. Museum of Geology 

 and Archaeology, Princeton ; Franklin Institute, College of 

 Pharmacy, Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art, and E. A. 



* Type, Felis planiceps vig. Horsf. Char. Second (first) superior premolar two 

 rooted ; orbit closed behind ; pupil round. 



tMr. Wortman has called my attention to a character of this genus which 

 confirms its separation from Felis, as I proposed in 1879. The maxilloturbinal 

 bone is less complex in the genus Uncia, than in Felis, consistently with a less 

 nocturnal habit, and less necessity for acute smell. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XX. 112. 3h. PRINTED NOVEMBER 30, 1883. 



