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species of Macacus, one of Rhinolophus (for which he gives a name 
previously used by Hodgson), one Vespertilio, and two species of 
Murina, six of Felis, five of Putorius, and three of Meles, regard- 
ing a new species of Arctonya as belonging to this genus; one 
species of Talpa, two of Sorea, and one of Crocidura ; four species 
of Stphneus, three of Gerbillus, three of Cricetus, two of Arvicola, 
three of Pteromys, two of Sciurus, one of Arctomys, and one of 
Spermophilus ; eight species of Mus, one of Rhizomys, and one of 
Lagomys; four species of Antilope of the subgenus Nemorhedus, 
one Budoreas, one Ovis; three species of Cervus (one of which he 
refers to a new subgenus that he calls Hlaphodes), one Cervulus, 
one Moschus, and one Sus. All these constitute a very valuable 
contribution to Eastern zoology. JeEoG. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL SOCIETY. 
December 10, 1874.—Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., President, in 
the Chair. 
*©On the Development of the Teeth of the Newt, Frog, Slowworm, 
and Green Lizards.” By Cuaruzs 8. Tomes, M.A. 
That the ‘“ papillary stage” of tooth-development could not be 
said to exist at any time either in the frog or in certain fish, was 
pointed out nearly twenty years ago by Professor Huxley, who, 
however, accepted, on the authority of Goodsir, the latter’s theory 
of the process as true of Man and Mammalia. In more recent 
years Kolliker and Waldeyer have traced out the course of the 
development of teeth with great accuracy in Man and some other 
Mammalia, with the result of showing that the usually accepted 
views propounded by Goodsir and Arnold are not by any means 
an accurate representation of what takes place in them. 
Since the date of the publication of Professor Huxley’s paper, 
I am not aware that any thing has been published bearing upon 
the development of the teeth of Reptilia and Batrachia, save a 
paper by Dr. Lionel Beale upon the development of the teeth of 
the Newt, and a short and inconclusive paper by Santi Sirena; 
with the exception of the papers alluded to, the subject may be 
taken to stand in the position which it occupied at the time of 
the publication of Professor Owen’s ‘ Odontography,’ in which we 
are told that the teeth-germs of Reptiles and Batrachia never 
stop at the papillary stage, but that the primitive dental papilla 
sinks into the substance of the gum and becomes inclosed by a 
capsule. 
