336 Miscellaneous—A New Fossil Lemur from Madagascar. 
According to Baron Toll, and contrary to Sir Henry’s assertion, 
traces of an Ice Age are present in Siberia—beds of fossil and more 
recent ice, ridges of rolled gravel, the moraine débris of an ancient 
glacier as seen in the island of Kotelnyi, upon which are said to rest 
the beds containing the bones and carcases of the Mammoth. Is not 
this the kind of evidence which Sir H. Howorth is so anxious to 
secure, and is it not subversive of that assertion of Cuvier that I 
quoted, and for which Sir Henry reproves me more suo ? 
I have a great respect for such honoured names as Cuvier and 
D’Archiac, and should think it an injustice to their logical faculties 
and acumen to presume that their conclusions upon this question 
would still be the same, notwithstanding that a modified and more 
natural reading of the evidence was forthcoming than the one that 
called forth Cuvier’s famous dictum. 
These are, J think, the principal points of Sir Henry Howorth’s 
rejoinder which call for remark from me, some of the others par- 
taking more of the character of Sir Henry’s simile of the Spanish 
Knight tilting at a figurative windmill, with this difference: that 
the Spanish Knight is replaced by an English one. 
Bowpon, April 18th, 18938. Marx StreRrvp. 
MIiSCHiLLANHOvUSsS.- 
A New Lemvroip Mammat rrom Mapacascar.—There has lately 
been sent to the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), a large collection of 
remains of Vertebrates from the South-west coast of Madagascar, 
comprising bones of Afpyornis, remains of Hippopotamus, of Potamo- 
cherus, sp. of Crocodilus robustus, and of two giant tortoises (Testudo). 
Amongst these were discovered a sumewhat imperfect Mammalian 
skull and lower jaw. They were obtained by Mr. J. T. Last, from 
a marsh at Ambolisatra, beneath a stratum of a white clayey sub- 
stance (shell-marl) about two feet in thickness. The skull was 
placed in the hands of Dr. C. J. Forsyth Major, well-known for his 
researches in the fossil Mammalia of Samos and various Huropean 
localities, and has been determined by him to be that of a gigantic 
form of fossil Lemuroid, related to the extinct genus Adapis as well 
as to existing Lemurids. The brain-case is remarkably small in 
size; the craniofacial angle extremely obtuse, as in most of the 
lower Mammals. There is an enormous lateral development of the 
anterior inter-orbital portion of the frontals extending over the small 
thick-walled orbits, a thick and flattened sagittal, and a strongly 
developed occipital crest. The Gygomatic arch is high and projects 
moderately outwards. The thickening (pachyostosis) of all the 
bones of the skull is very remarkable. ‘The molars and premolars 
approach closely some Malagasy Lemurids (the canines and incisors 
are not preserved). Dr. Major names this new form Megaladapis 
madagascariensis.—Proc. Roy. Soc. June loth, 18938. 
