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Gunn, John. Address to Science Gossip Club, Norwich, 1876, in 

 Report of Proceedings for 1875 and 1876. Pp. 28. 8vo. Norwich. 



Contains remarks on the Proboscidean and Cervine remains in the 

 Norwich Museum, which are said to exhibit evidence of gradual transi- 

 tion from one species into another. H. B. W. 



Giinther, Dr. Albert. Contributions to our knowledge of the Fish- 

 fauna of the Tertiary Deposits of the Highlands of Padang, 

 Sumatra. Geoh Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. pp. 433-440, pis. xv.-xix. 

 The following are new species — Baganus gigas, Barhus mega- 

 cepJialus, AmblypJiaryngodon^ sp., Chirocentrus'i polyodon, Notopteras 

 jirimceuus, and Hexapsephus, sp. Besides these there are — Auliscops 

 sumcttranus^=Protosyngnathiis sumatretisis, Marck, Pseudeutropius ver- 

 beel'ii = Brachyspoadylus indicus, Marck, and Thynnichthys amhlyostoma 

 =Sardimoides amhlyostoma^ Marck. W. H. D. 



Haberlandt, G. Ueber Testudo prcecej^s, n. sp., die erste fossile 

 Landschildkrote des Wiener Beckens. [The first Land-tortoise of 

 the Vienna Basin.] Jahrb. k.-k. geol. Reichs. Bd. xxvi. Heft 3, 

 pp. 243-248, pi. 16. 

 This cast of a plastron of a tortoise in sandstone is from Kalksburg, 

 near Vienna ; its chief characters are : — dorsal shield strongly arched and 

 steeper in front than behind ; form of first three vertebral plates and their 

 mode of connexion with the costals as usual in Testudo, but the succeeding 

 ones as in Emys ; costals alternately wedge-shaped ; marginals remark- 

 ably high ; nuchal and caudal plates very steep. E. B. T. 



Hall, Townshend M. Fossil Fish in North Devon. Geol. Mag. 

 dec. ii. vol. iii. pp. 410-412. 



Notices fish -remains from Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of 

 N. Devon, adding a new species of Coelacanthus nearly allied to C. 

 granulosus, Ag., and 2 other species (not named or described), all from 

 Carboniferous rocks at Instow. W. H. D. 



Hoernes, Dr. R. ^n^Araco/^mwrnwcr^nMrn, Cuv., ausdenKohlenab- 



lagerungen von Trifail. [^Anthracotherium in Trifail Coal-Measures.] 



Jahrb. Jc.-k. geol. lieichs. Bd. xxvi. Heft 3, pp. 209-242, pi. 15. 



Describes part of the mandible, showing canine and 2 incisors ; 



remarks that probably a lower 3rd incisor was present in the young, 



but became lost in old age, the formula being thus : — 



i. 3, c. 1, pm. 4, m. 3 



i. 2, c. 1, pm. 4, m. 3* 



Detached canines of the upper jaw are also figured. E. B. T. 



. Anthracotherienreste von Zovenccdo bei Grancona im Vicen- 



tinischen. [Aiithracotherium from Zovencedo]. Verh. i'.-l\ geol. 



Reichs. pp. 105-109. Translated in Boll. R. Com, geol. Ital. 

 vol. vii. pp. 272-282. 



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