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" In the other groups of the Mammalia Mr. Lydekker has been 

 unable to introduce the whole of the fossil forms, and has been 

 content to indicate their existence by drawings, by coloured casts, 

 or by parts of specimens, wherever he could make room for them. 

 Explanatory labels have been introduced in each group, and 

 skeletons also of each type of mammal. Coloured maps showing 

 the geographical distribution of each family are also placed with 

 them. To do all this the actual number of exhibited specimens has 

 of necessity been greatly reduced. This limited exhibition of recent 

 and extinct forms together in one series had been advocated by me 

 in 1887, and may be seen carried out, as far as I have been able to 

 obtain specimens, in the palaeontological galleries under my care." 

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Dr. Woodward referred to the two great epoch-making events which 

 had so widely affected all the sciences, and which saw the light just 

 forty-two years ago, namely, the discoveries in prehistoric archaeology, 

 by which the age of man has been carried back into Newer Tertiary 

 time, and the extinct Mammalia had been shown to have survived 

 down to the human period, and to have been contemporary with 

 early man and with many of the surviving forms of animals of 

 to-day ; uniting the latest chapter of geological history to the oldest 

 records of our race, and joining the sciences of Geology and 

 Archeology together. Secondly, the enunciation at the same period 

 of Darvyin's origin of species and the doctrine of evolution, which 

 linked into one the whole chain of life from the earliest records 

 in Archean Eocks to the full tide of existences which now 

 surround us. 



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The President, in conclusion, advocated the desirability of the 

 publication by the Association of a handbook giving an account 

 of every provincial museum throughout the country, with full 

 particulars as to each, not only as to its officers, organization, and 

 its plan of arrangement, but also what were the chief features of 

 its exhibits, and especially to print any records concerning 'types' 

 and ' figured specimens ' preserved in its collection and any other 

 particulars of general public and scientific interest. 



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I- — The Eighth International Geological Congress, Paris, 

 1900. Livret-Guide des Excursions en France du viii^ Congres 

 Geologique International. Avec 372 figures dans le texte et 

 25 planches. (Paris, 1900.) 



THE '^Comite d'organisation du viii^ Congres Geologique Inter- 

 national," under the presidency of the venerable Professor 

 Gaudry, has just issued a "Livret-Guide des Excursions en France 

 du viiie Congres Geologique International." To judge from this 

 publication, the preparations for the impending Congress, which is 

 to meet at Paris from the 16th to the 28th August, have been 



