Vie Reviews—J. W. Davis—Fossil Fishes. 
Short characteristics are given of several particularly interesting 
members of the Samos fauna. The author adduces reasons for con- 
sidering Chalicotherium (Ancylotherium) to be neither an Hdentate 
nor a Perissodactyle, but forming a separate order. 
Amongst the Ruminantia chiefly worthy of mention is a member 
of the Giraffidae, the Samotherium Boissieri, a complete skull of 
which has recently been added to the British Museum. The male 
possessed horn-cores implanted directly on the roof of the orbits; 
the females were hornless. A near relative of the Samotherium was 
the Paleotragus Roueni (Pikermi, Samos), which hitherto has been 
considered as an Antelope. 
The Criotherium argalioides, chiefly represented by four nearly 
complete crania in the British Museum, is a most curious form of 
Ruminant, showing some affinities to the Antelopide and Ovide, 
though it cannot be assigned to either of these families. In the 
form of the horn-cores it resembles the Budorcas of Assam and Thibet. 
The new genera Protoryx and Prostrepsiceros are considered to 
be the forerunners respectively of Hippotragus and Strepsiceros, 
both living African Antelopes. 
A species of Orycteropus, the first true Edentate found fossil in 
the Old World, has been already recorded in this Macazine on 
a former occasion (See Grou. Mae. Dee. III. Vol. VI. 1889, p. 451). 
Amongst the scanty Avian remains deserves mention a Struthio, 
represented by a femur and part of the pelvis, scarcely to be dis- 
tinguished from the African Ostrich. 
The principal collection of the Samos fossils has been presented by 
its owner, Mr. William Barbey, to the College Gaillard at Lausanne. 
A second collection, important chiefly for its complete specimens of 
Ruminants, is actually in the British Museum. Smaller collec- 
tions of duplicates have been presented to the museums of Geneva, 
Lausanne, and the Pythagoras Gymnasium at Vathy (Samos). Lastly 
a smaller collection brought from Samos by Dr. G. von Bukowski, 
of the Geologische Reichsanstalt of Vienna, is deposited in the 
Geological and Paleontological Museums of the Vienna University. 
RAV Lew Ss. 
I.—Tue Fossin Fisues or tHe Britis Coat Mrasures. 
“On tHE Fosstn FisH-remMAIns oF THE CoAL MEASURES OF THE 
British Isnanps. Part I. Puevracantuip#.” By James 
W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S. Sci. Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. [2] . 
vol. iv. pp. 708-748, pls. lxv.-lxxiii. 1892. 
Pee British Coal Measures have probably yielded more remains 
of fishes than the corresponding horizon in any other country, 
and the collections of these fossils are now very extensive. At the 
time when Agassiz was preparing his “ Poissons Fossiles,” they 
were almost the only Upper Carboniferous fish-remains accessible 
to him, and they thus comprise many of the types of his species; 
but since those early researches, most of the publications on the 
