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charge which I make against Prof. Claus. What I complain 

 of is that he stated to the Vienna Academy that " hitherto " 

 other views were held by zoologists, and that the views then 

 announced by him were novelties. As a matter of fact they 

 were not novel, but had been in so many words and in identical 

 terms formulated by me five years before, and published as a 

 special essay in a journal habitually studied by Prof. Claus. 

 Moreover, these views were not obscurely hinted at by me in 

 scattered passages of a treatise definitely supporting other and 

 antagonistic views, but were all enunciated in logical sequence 

 and made the subject of special discussion and investigation 

 in the essay alluded to, " Limulus an Arachnid." This 

 publication Professor Claus chooses to ignore in claiming 

 novelty for the views published by him in the * Anzeiger ' five 

 years after its appearance. 



I leave the reader to classify the conduct of Prof. Claus in 

 thus dealing with the published work of his contemporaries. 



PllOCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 

 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 January 27, 1886.— Prof. T. G. Bonuey, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the Fossil Mammalia of Maragha, in North-western 

 Persia." By R. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S., &c. 



The Author alluded to the important memoirs of Messrs. Grewingk, 

 Pohlig, and Rodler on the Maragha Mammalia, and having expressed 

 the hope that his notice would be regarded as an attempt to assist 

 rather tlian to interfere with their work, mentioned a collection of 

 specimens from Maragha sent by Mr. Damon to the British Museum. 

 He fully confirmed the conclusions already arriv^ed at as to the 

 identity of many of the Maragha mammals with those of Pikermi, 

 and thought that Giraffa attica, Palceort/.v Pallasi, Sas eri/manthiif<. 

 Mastodon pentelici, and Helladotherium Duvemoiji might be added to 

 the list of species already recorded. He also recorded the French 

 Felis brevirostris ; a Wiinoceros, apparently allied to li. antlquitatis ; 

 and R. Blanfordi, of the north-west portion of India and China. The 

 paper concluded with some observations regarding the relations of 

 the Palsearctic and Oriental Pliocene faunas. 



2. "• On the Pliocene of Maragha, Persia, and its resemblance 

 to that of Pikermi, in Greece ; on Fossil Elephant-remains of Caucasia 

 and Persia ; and on the results of a Monograph of the Fossil Ele- 

 phants of Germany and Italy." By Dr. H. Pohlig. Communicated 

 by Dr. G. J. Hindo, F.G.S. ^ 



The principal object of the Author in making a geological tour 



