534 Dr. Forsyth Major — M. Miocene Carnivora from France. 



At tbe junction of the two galleries is set the bronze statue of 

 Prof. Sedgwick — the last work of the late Mr. Onslow Ford, E.A. 

 The Professor is represented as standing with his geological hammer 

 in one hand and a slab bearing the Cambrian triloblte, Angelina 

 SedgwicJci, in the other. 



The second floor has the western end of the Downing Street wing 

 occupied by a well-filled library, fitted with oak shelves and book- 

 cases through the liberality of the late Master of Trinity Hall, whose 

 benefaction also permitted much extra ornamentation to be added 

 to the exterior of the building. Class-rooms for pal^eozoology and 

 palseobotany, private rooms for members of the staff, and a special 

 room for the students' series of rocks and fossils are also placed 

 on this floor in the main wing, while the Museum of Petrology, the 

 petrological laboratory and class-room occupy the other wing. 



The attics above provide space for storage of duplicate and supple- 

 mentary collections, rooms for special research, lavatories, etc. 



The materials which have been used in the construction of the 

 Sedgwick Museum are very varied, but the general effect of the 

 exterior is given by the purplish bricks made of the Weald Clay 

 of Cranley in Surrey, mixed with ' breeze.' Bricks of a bright red 

 colour from the Eocene clay of Castle Hedingham, and also from the 

 Eocene beds of Bracknell in Berkshire, are here and there introduced 

 round the arches of the windows and in other parts. The outside 

 dressings are of Clipsham Stone from the Inferior Oolite of Eutland. 

 Internally the local white bricks from the Gault form the mass 

 of the building ; Ancaster freestone is employed for the inside 

 mouldings ; and the Caithness Flags and the Purbeck-Portland 

 passage beds have furnished much of the material for the staircases. 

 Granite from Guernsey supports the internal ii'on columns, and 

 Coal-measure sandstone from Idle, near Bradford, constitutes the 

 templets on which the girders rest. The roof is covered with tiles 

 made from the Upper Coal-measure clays of Stoke-upon-Trent. 

 Materials obtained from many other localities and formations are 

 used in the building, and make it in itself quite a museum of 

 economic geolog3\ 



III. — New Carnivora from the Middle Miocene of La Grive- 



Saint-Alban, Isere, France. 



By Dr. C. I. Foksyth Major, F.Z.S. 



VIVEEEID^. 



Progenetta oerta, sp.n. 



THIS is the Progenetta incerta of Deperet, which requires a new 

 name, as it is far from identical with the Mustela incerta, Lartet, 

 from Sansan, with which Deperet identified his specimens from 

 La Grive. 



Deperet describes and figures an inferior right m. 1, and a right 

 maxillary portion, exhibiting the two posterior premolars, the 

 anterior molar, and part of the alveolus of m. 2.^ The specimen in 



1 Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, vol. v, pp. 34-36 (Extr.), pi. i, figs. 18-19 (1892).. 



