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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. 
EmMIN PaAsHa. 
Tue Beyvliney 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.—feuter. 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 Proc. 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 position 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 Juza and Pontoporia of the South 
American rivers. We regret that the artist has scarcely done justice 
to the author’s specimens. 
New Monkeys. 
Ir is probably a unique 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 genus Semnopithecus, and the third to the Ethiopian Cercopithecus. 
