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another paper, this time in the Zoological Society's Pro- 

 ceedings, on a mammalian skull from the Red Crag. 

 The specimen referred to in this communication was 

 provisionally assigned to Cuvier's genus Xiphodon, and 

 was believed to have been originally washed out from 

 a formation much older than the Red Crag, and reburied 

 in the latter. 



Next on our list comes a paper on the anatomy of the 

 musk-deer (Moschus moschiferus), contributed to the 

 serial last cited for 1875, m which the author points 

 out how widely this animal differs from the more 

 typical deer, and shows that it cannot even claim a near 

 relationship with the Chinese water-deer, despite the 

 fact that in both species the males are devoid of antlers, 

 and are armed with long sabre-like tusks in the upper 

 jaw. In several respects notably the presence of a 

 gall-bladder to the liver the musk-deer is indeed 

 nearer to the hollow-horned ruminants (Bovidae), than 

 to the other members of the deer tribe (Cervidae). 



In 1876 Professor Flower delivered before the Royal 

 Institution an extremely interesting lecture on the ex- 

 tinct mammals of North America, which at that time 

 were in course of being made known to the scientific 

 world by the writings of Professors Marsh and Cope. 

 In the course of this lecture Flower alluded at consider- 

 able length to the ancestry of the horse then a com- 

 paratively new subject and also discussed the structure 

 and affinities of those gigantic many-horned mammals 

 commonly known as Dinocerata. In concluding, the 

 lecturer observed that the work accomplished in America 

 taught us " First, that the living world around us at 

 the present moment bears but an exceedingly small 



