380 Reviews — Pavlow, Newer Tertiary Mammals in Russia. 



and larger part is contributed by the Central Meteorological and 

 Geodynamic Office at Rome, and consists of notices of the earth- 

 quakes observed in Italy during 1895. It is not, however, of merely 

 local interest, for many of the records are those of distant shocks, 

 and supply valuable time-determinations for measuring the velocity 

 with which the pulsations travel. 



That the invention of new instruments continues to occupy Italian 

 seismologists, is shown by the insertion of no fewer than eight 

 papers. The Guzzanti microseismograph is described by its inventor, 

 and the Cecchi microseismograph, which has been in use for some 

 time, by G. Giovannozzi. Prof. G. Mugna describes an electrically- 

 recording seismoscope ; Dr. A. Cancaui, a new type of seismic photo- 

 chronograph ; and Prof. G. Grablovitz shows how the horizontal 

 pendulum may be adapted for recording the time of occurrence of a 

 shock. Accounts are also contributed by their respective inventors 

 of Vicentini's microseismograph, Agamennone's seismometrograph, 

 and Grablovitz' geodynamic level, instruments which have already 

 added to our knowledge of earthquake-pulsations. 



Several interesting earthquake-studies are supplied by the staff 

 of the Meteorological and Geodynamic Office. The well-known 

 Director, Prof. P. Tacchini, describes the Roman earthquake of 

 Nov. 1, 1895 ; while his assistant, Dr. M. Baratta, deals with the 

 Lecco earthquake of March 5, 1894, the Viggianello earthquake of 

 May 28, 1894, the Laibach earthquake of April 14, 1895 (so far as it 

 was felt in Italy), the Florentine earthquake of May 18, 1S95, the 

 Adriatic earthquake of Aug. 9, 1895, and with the Florentine seismic 

 district generally. Dr. G. Agamennone, the Director of the Con- 

 stantinople Geodynamic Office, discusses the earthquake of Para- 

 mythia (Epirus) of May 13-14, 1895 ; and Prof. F. Ornori deter- 

 mines the surface-velocity of several recent Japanese earthquakes. 



The Italian volcanoes receive their due shai'e of attention. Prof. 

 G. Mercalli communicates Vesuvian notes from January, 1892, to 

 June, 1895 ; and Prof. A. Ricco, notes on the state of Etna from the 

 eruption in 1892 to the end of 1894. A summary of the principal 

 eruptive phenomena in Sicily and the adjacent islands is added by 

 S. Ai-cidiacono, and some observations made on Vesuvius on June 21, 

 1895, by Dr. M. Baratta. C. Davison. 



III. — Miocene and Pliocene Mammals in Russia. Nouveaux 

 Mammiferes tertiaires trouves en Russie. By Marie Pavlow. 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 1896, No. 2, pp. 1-12 (reprint), 

 with one plate. 



MADAME PAYLOW'S latest contribution to our knowledge of 

 the extinct Mammalia of Russia is an interesting description 

 of some fragmentary remains referable to an earlier date than the 

 Pleistocene. Anchiiherium aurelianense is recorded for the first time 

 from Russia, on the evidence of the distal end of a metacarpal in 

 from the neighbourhood of Nikolaew. Rhinoceros Schleiermaeheri is 

 represented by two molars, Cnpreohis ensanus by two imperfect 

 antlers and one lower molar, and a Cervus (much like G. Ferrieri) 





