48 Miscellaneous. 



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Note on Miolophus planiceps, Owen. 



This interesting mammalian remain from the Lower Eocene forma- 

 tion, whicli was figured and described "by Professor Owen in the 

 Geological Magazine (Vol. ii., p. 339,, pi. x., fig. 1), has been 

 claimed by Mr. W. S. Dallas, Keeper of the Museum of the York- 

 shire Philosophical Society at York, as the original of Mr. Charles- 

 worth's Flatychcerops Bichardsoni, which had been lent to the late 

 Dr. Hugh Falconer for examination, and since lost sight of by Mr. 

 Dallas. 



The only notice of Platychcerops is to be found in the Eeport of 

 the 24:th meeting of the British Association (held at Liverpool in 

 September, 1854). At p. 80 (Eeports) it is there described by 

 Mr. Charlesworth as " the skull of a new mammal from the London 

 clay of Heme Bay, about the size of Hyracotherium, but quite dis- 

 tinct, having very prominent zygomatic processes, and the crowns 

 of the molar teeth being fiu-nished with one large tubercle, occupy- 

 ing two-thirds of the surface and several small complicated tubercles 

 inside" (outside?). 



This description is very imperfect and incorrect, and not being 

 accompanied by a figaire of the specimen, sufficiently explains its 

 having been overlooked. 



The late Dr. Falconer sent the specimen to M. Lartet, in order to 

 obtain liis opinion thereon ; that gentleman returned it by the hands 

 of the late Mr. Henry Christy, who, Dr. Falconer having died, left 

 it (we understand), with Mr. Eoberts. That gentleman, unaware 

 of its history and ownership, submitted it to Professor Owen for 

 description, stating that both M. Lartet and the late Dr. Falconer 

 asserted it to be a new and undescribed mammal. — Edit. 



DiscovEKY OE Eemains oe THE DoDO. — JSTumerous remains of that 

 remarkable wingless bird, the Dodo (Didiis ineptus, Linn.), have 

 recently been obtained from a Morass in the Island of Mauritius, by 

 Mr. George Clark, of Mahebourg, in that island. A very complete 

 series of the bones of this interesting creature are now in the hands 

 of Professor Owen for examination, and they will probably be 

 described, on the 9th instant, before the Zoological Society of 

 London. 



Obituakt. — ^We have just received the sad intelligence of the 

 sudden death of Mr. George E. Eoberts, F.G.S., and Clerk to the 

 Geological Society of London. During the five years which Mr. 

 Eoberts held office at Somerset House he was engaged in literary 

 pursuits of a more or less scientific character. His name will be 

 found in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, the 

 Geological Magazine, and numerous other periodicals. He was 

 also the author of several original works. He died at Kidder- 

 minster, his native place, on the 20th December, at the early age of 

 34 years. 



