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PALAEONTOLOGY. 



1. VERTEBRATA. 



Allen, J. A. Description of some remains of an Extinct Species of 



AVolf and an Extinct Species of Deer from the Lead Eegion of the 



Upper Mississippi. Amer. Journ. ser. 3, vol. xi. pp. 47-51. 



The new species Canis Mississijppiensis and Cervus Whitneyi are 



described. The specimens form part of a collection of mammalian 



remains from the lead-crevices and superficial strata of the lead-region 



of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois. G. A. L. 



. The American Bison, Living and Extinct. 3fem. Mtis. 



Harvard Coll. vol. iv. no. 10, pp. 246 ; 12 plates and map. 

 Describes Bison latifrons, Leidy, and B. antiquiiSj Leidy {=B. crassi- 

 cornis, Eichardson), both extinct. 



Anon. Album de Paleontologie du Bassin Parisien (La Seine aux 

 Ages ante-historiques). 4to. Paris, 1876 ? (not dated). No text, 

 78 plates. 



Baily, W. H. Description of a new species of Labyrinthodont 

 Amphibia from the Coal at Jarrow Colliery, near Castlecomer, 

 Kilkenny. Rep. Bi'it. Assoc, for 1875, Sections, p. 62. 



Side view of skull, detached ramus of mandible, detached teeth, ver- 

 tebrae, ribs, and limb-bones of Anihracosaums Edgei, n. sp. 



Bassani, Fr. Pesci fossili nuovi del calcare eoceno di Monte Bolca. 

 [New Fossil Fish from the Eocene Limestone of Monte Bolca.] 

 Atti Sac. Ven. Trent. Sci. Nat. vol. iii. pp. 23-38, plate. 



Beneden, Prof. P. J. Van. Les Thalassotheriens de Baltringen 



(Wiirtemberg). [Thalassotheriaus of Baltringen, Wurtemberg.] 



Bull, Ac. R. Belg. 2 ser. t. xli. pp. 471-495, plate. 



These fossils come from beds deposited in Miocene times, when the 



Black Sea extended as far as Vienna, Linz, and the Lake of Constance. 



The remains described are Squalodon serratum, Amphitherians, Sirenia, 



Platyrhynchus canaliculatus, Orcopsis acutidens, Delphinus Baltringii, 



Delphinus sp. ?, Aidoceius molassicus. G. A. L. 



Beneden, Prof. P. J. Van. Un mot sur le Selache (Hannovera) aurata 



du crag d'Anvers. \_S. aurata of the Antwerp Crag.] Bull. Ac. 



R. Belg. 2 ser. t. xlii. pp. 294-299, plate. 



Concludes that Ilannovera is the Pliocene representative of the living 



Selache. The plate refers to the male appendix of the latter (JS. 



