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generic name, which had been bestowed by his friend 

 Huxley four years previously in the Geological Society's 

 Journal, and which Flower was therefore compelled to 

 employ. It refers to the fact that the jaws of the new 

 animal are remarkable for the even and unbroken wall 

 formed by the teeth, which show no enlarged tusks. 

 At the time the geological age of this interesting fossil 

 was quite unknown ; but it formed the forerunner of the 

 marvellous discoveries of the remains of fossil mammals 

 of middle tertiary age in Patagonia, which have been 

 made of late years, and have done so much to increase 

 our knowledge of the past life and history of the South 

 American Continent. 



Of minor interest is a paper by the then Hunterian Pro- 

 fessor in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 

 on a much rolled and battered skull from the so-called 

 Red Crag of Suffolk, which the author referred to a 

 species of that extinct genus of sea-cows (Sirenia) known 

 as Halitherium. Such interest as the specimen possessed 

 was due to its affording the first evidence of the occurrence 

 of remains of that genus in Britain. Another paper, it 

 may be mentioned, was published by Flower in the same 

 journal for 1877, ' m which another well-known extinct 

 continental genus of mammals was added to the fauna 

 of the Red Crag of East Anglia. The paper described 

 two molar teeth, in the York Museum, from the deposit 

 in question, evidently referable to the large bear-like 

 animal known as Hyeenarctus, of which the first remains 

 had been described many years previously from the 

 Siwalik Hills of North- Eastern India. As the mention 

 of this paper has broken the chronological order of 

 treatment, it may be added that in 1876 Flower published 

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