1.52 Bibliographical Notices. 



Kosslorloch near Thayingfn iind otlier eaves, flefioriptivc notes on 

 the several fiijiired siteiimeiis of stone, antler, bone, &c., and dis- 

 eussions aa to the relative and positive dates of the Cave-dwellers 

 ci'mpleto the memoir. 



The author thinks 4000 years a sufficient period to allow of the 

 habitation of the eave, after the lowest bed witli Mammoth-bones 

 had been washed in and the waters drained off, and for the forma- 

 tion of the bed with tlint knives and hearth-stuff and subseiiuent 

 aeciimnlations. 



The plates illustrate : — flint-cores and flakes, the latter mostly 

 simple, rarely dressed or worked ; simjily ])oinled harpoon-heads, 

 of various patterns and ornament ; bone chisels ; eyed needle, simple 

 awls and piercers, ri})per8 and smoothers, made of antler ; j)erforated 

 ornaments or charms of wood, shell, and bone ; cut antlers ; a piece 

 of elephant-bone, and a portion of a human skull fractured by a 

 blunt im])lement ; also a view of the Rosenhalde and diajj^ams of 

 the cave and its deposits. 



Kecherches pour servir dVHistoire Naturelh des Mammiferes, com- 

 prenant des Considerations siir la Classification de ces Animaux 

 par M. H. Milne-Edwards, des Observations snr VHipjyojwtame 

 de Liberia et des 'Etudes snr hi Faiine de la Chine et du llilbet 

 orientale par M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards. Tome premier : 

 Texte. Tome second: Atlas, 105 planches. 4to. Paris, 1868 

 1 1874. 



M. Milne-Edwards proposes another scheme for the arrangement 

 of the Mammalia. Like all these schemes, it contains some good 

 points and shows some affinities ; but these multitudes of arrange- 

 ments are of great detriment to the progress of science. 



M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards gives a good figiire of the Liberian 

 hippopotamus from life, a figure of its skeleton, and details of its 

 skull, brain, &c., the two latter showing that ^Morton was quite right 

 in regarding this animal as a distinct species and genus from the 

 common hippopotamus, of which some zoologists consider it only a 

 pygmy race. 



M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards describes and figures the following 

 new forms of Mammalia from China and Thibet : — 



1. Bhinopithecus Boxellance. A monkey with a slightly elongate 

 recurved nose, from Eastern Thibet. 



2. Ailuropus melnnoleucus. A large black-and-white bear with 

 a very short broad head, from Thibet. 



3. Scaptochinis moschatus. A genus allied to the mole, from 

 Mongolia. 



4. JSydofjale elegans. An iridescent water-Insectivore, 



f). Scaptonyx fuscicaudatus ; 6. Uropsilus soricipcs ; and 7. Anouro- 

 sorex squamipes. Allied to the shrewmice. 



Besides these, he figures and describes, almost all as new : — twe 



