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legs subcompressed (section oval), smooth, the lower edge 
with a row of minute denticles directed forwards ; third joint 
of the first pair nearly 4 lines wide, gradually decreasing to 
the fifth pair, the third joints of which are about | line wide. 
Very abundant in the fine Fuller’s earth of the “ Lobster beds ” 
of the lower greensand of Atherfield, Isle of Wight ; also in the 
Speeton clay of Speeton, Yorkshire coast. 
(Col. University of Cambridge.) 
Note.—As the Glyphea rostrata (Phil. sp.) (Astacus rostratus, 
id., Geol. York) has been referred by Herman von Meyer (Neue 
Gattungen fos. Krebse) and subsequent authors to the G. Miin- 
steri, I may mention, that on comparing an authentic cast of that 
species with the English one, I find the latter fully distinguished, 
as a species, by the hind part of the thorax being much longer in 
proportion to the depth, even slightly exceeding in this respect 
the G. pustulosa (V. Mey.), which it exactly resembles in the 
character of its branchial furrows and their associated lobes, dif- 
fering however from it and agreeing with the G. Miinsteri in the 
abrupt notch-like narrowing of the margin in front of the nuchal 
furrow. 
[To be continued. } 
XXXV.— Supplementary Notices regarding the Dodo and its 
Kindred. Nos. 6, 7, 8. By H. E. Strickianp, M.A., F.G.S. 
(Continued from vol. iii. p. 261.) 
6. On two additional bones of the Solitaire recently brought from 
Mauritius.—We are indebted to the officers of the Royal Society 
of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius for a valuable contribution to 
Didine osteology. These gentlemen no sooner heard of the in- 
terest which the history of the Dodo had excited in Europe, than 
they undertook to search in Mauritius and the adjacent islands 
for such parts of the skeleton of these extinct birds as were 
wanting to complete our knowledge. Before proceeding to 
excavate the alluvions and caverns of those islands in quest of 
bones, they wisely commenced by searching the cabinets of their 
own museum. ‘Two bones were here discovered, which tradition 
referred to the Dodo, and these precious specimens the Society, 
with the most praiseworthy liberality, have sent to Europe. 
The bones now sent belong, not to the true Dodo, as was sup- 
posed by the Mauritian naturalists, but to that longer-legged 
species which inhabited the island of Rodriguez, and was deno- 
minated the Solitaire. They are both metatarsal bones, and 
consequently are so far only duplicates of portions of that bird 
which already existed in Europe. But from their superior state 
of preservation they supply some valuable information which was 
