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of deceptive dating employed by this author were apparently not 

 observed by him, it will be useful to call attention to the dating of 

 parts that have subsequently appeared : — 



Pt. XIV. pp. 33-64, April 1893. Not Aug. and Oct. 1892,as stated 



in the signatures ! 

 XV. „ 65-88, July 1893. Not Nov. 1892, as stated in the 



signatures ! 

 XVI.,, 89-112, Oct. 1893. Not February 1893, as stated in 



the signatures I 

 XVII. „ 113-136, April 1894. Not February 1893, as stated in 



the signatures ! 

 XVIII. „ 137-160, June 1894. Not April 1893, as stated in the 



signatures I 

 XIX. „ 161-176, Oct. 1894. Not July and Oct. 1893, as 



stated in the signatures ! 



I notice that Mr. Moore is a Fellow of the Zoological Societ}', as 

 well as an Honorary Associate of the Linnean Society ; and it might 

 be well if the Councils of these Societies took cognizance of authors 

 who misdate their works, as the question of nomenclature is alreadv 

 one of extreme difficulty. 



If Mr. Moore wishes to date his signatures, let him by all means 

 do so, but it must be done with the rigid honesty of Godman and 

 Salvin, who, in their ' Biologia Centrali-Americana,' also give a 

 strict account on the outer wrapper of the contents and date of 

 each part. 



C. Davies Sherborn 

 (Index gen. et spec. anim.). 



Researches on the Structure, Organization, and Classification of the 

 Fossil Reptilia. — Part IX. Section 6. Associated Remains of two 

 small Specimens from Klipfontein, Fraserburg. By H. G. 

 Seeley, F.R.S. 



The author obtained parts of two skeletons from the summit of 

 the Karroo rocks which form the Nieuwveldt range. They resemble 

 Theriodonts in their general marsupial characters. The fragments 

 of skulls are not in the same slabs with the other bones. 



Theromus leptonotus shows the fore limb and some vertebras. The 

 humerus is determined to be Theriodont by the transverse extension 

 of the proximal articulation. The bone is 1 T \ inch long, resembling 

 in form that of the Phalangers. The entepicondylar foramen is 

 more vertical than in the marsupials, and, as among marsupials 

 the radial crest, if prolonged distally, would be continuous with the 

 bridge over that foramen. The vertebras are each T 3 7 inch long ; 

 they show a transverse suture between the neural arch and the 

 centrum. 



The anterior part of the skull, very imperfectly preserved, indi- 



