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nent paleontologist to belong to Cervus euryceros. The length of the 
atlas is 0265 metre, and its breadth 0-088 metre; both differing only by 
soos from the measurements stated by Cuvier. 
6. Former Connection of Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands. 
—Mr. A. R. Watvace in a paper on the Aru Islands, a group 150 miles 
South of Western New Guinea (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xx, Jan. 1858, 
R 473), shows that the zoology of the Islands is closely related to that of 
ew Guinea and Australia; and that shallow seas not only connect the 
two last, as others had before stated, but that they extend and include 
the Aru group. The depth of water over the whole to Australia is very. 
nearly uniform at about thirty to forty fathoms. Mr. Wallace says:— 
supposing them to have been once true rivers, having their source in the 
mountains of New Guinea, and reduced to their present condition by 
the subsidence of the intervening land.” 
Nearly one half of the Passerine birds of New Guinea hitherto de- 
seribed are contained in the author’s collections made in Aru, and a num- 
ber also of species in the other tribes. st 
The or ma farther observes on the absence of the peculiar East Indian 
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ride, Picide, Bucconide, Trogonida, Meropida, and Eurylaimide ; but 
doubt- 
several New Guinea), and this, with three or four species of Bee pe 
f. 
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7. Harthquake in Italy; (Athen., No, 1577.)—The sang wa 
interest from that of the afflicting details of the suffering occasiont” 
it, as many things occurred to show that before the event there Was o | i 
ubterranean agitation going on. Similar indications of exisung oe a 
tion now continually manifest themselves. That Vesuvius bas oa. 
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