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Zoological Society : — 



their place an outline of the natural arrangement adopted by De 

 Candolle and most modern systematic writers. - We think that 

 150 pages devoted to this latter part of the science is almost alto- 

 gether out of place in a book " intended to give the important facts 

 of botanical science as briefly and popularly as possible." 



But we must not be misunderstood. This is an excellent book, 

 and well fitted to follow a " brief and popular " primary volume, 

 such as Henfrey's * Rudiments.' It will even, we suspect, supersede 

 Balfour's 'Manual' in many places where that has been usually em- 

 ployed : this is a misfortune ; for the ' Manual ' is far better fitted 

 for the more advanced student than are these ' Outlines.' 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 24, 1862.— E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.L.S., in the 

 Chair. 



Description of Crocodilus frontatus, a New Croco- 

 dile FROM Old Calabar River, West Africa. By 

 Andrew Murray, Assist. Secretary, Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Crocodilus frontatus, nov. sp. 



Head broad and deep, much broader than in C. vulgaris, very flat 

 on the vertex, and with the margins of the flat portion slightly 

 raised ; the lateral margins very slightly curved ; the suture inside of 

 the lateral margin placed at rather more than a fourth of the breadth 

 of the vertex from its side. This suture is not throughout parallel 

 to the lateral margin ; it is nearly so for about two-thirds of its 



Fig. 1. 



posterior length ; towards the front it bends a little outwards. Fig. 1 

 shows the form of the sutures in this species, while fig. 2 shows 

 their form in C. vulgaris, and fig. 3 in C. leptorhynchus. The ver- 



