Reviews—Dr. C. F. Major’s Fossils of Samos. 431 
The scheme, however, was not adopted by the Town Council of 
Northampton—as it was considered too theoretical by the “practical” 
men; moreover it was deemed necessary to procure a supply without 
loss of time, and an artificial reservoir to hold 400 millions of gallons 
of water has been constructed near Ravensthorpe. Mr. Thompson 
claims that his plan, if successful, would have saved the town at 
least £75,000; hence it seems a pity that it was not given a trial 
by the construction of one or more experimental dumb-wells, for 
we feel confident that the plan could not have been proposed under 
geological conditions more likely to prove favourable to its success. 
_ Those occupied in the subject of water-supply will, however, 
find in this carefully-prepared work much matter of interest and 
instruction; and the author need not feel that his labour has been 
unproductive of good, even if he has not been considered as a 
“ prophet” in his own country. 
Il.—Dr. C. ForsyrH-Masor’s Pat#ontoLtoGicaAL D1IscovERIEsS IN 
THE IsLE OF SAMOS. 
A 
Sur un Gisement p’Ossements Fosstnes pans L’[tm pr Samos, 
CONTEMPORAINS DE LAGE DE Pixermi. Par M. Foxrsyra Magor. 
Comptes Rendus, vol. evii. pp. 1178-1181 (1888). 
HIS paper contains a preliminary notice of a collection of 
Vertebrate remains of Lower Pliocene age obtained by the 
author during the year 1887 in the island of Samos in the Turkish 
Archipelago. Among these are a large number of forms specifically 
identical with the mammals from the equivalent deposits of Pikermi 
in Attica, Baltavar in Hungary, and Maragha in Persia; but there 
are also some new types, which are of interest either from a distribu- 
tional or a purely zoological point of view. 
Among these new forms is a species of Ant-bear (Orycteropus), 
which is the only representative of that genus yet known beyond 
the Ethiopian region. A large Pangolin, which is estimated to have 
been nearly three times the size of the West African Manis gigantea, 
is made the type of the new genus Palgomanis; and is of interest 
as showing how the African Pangolins may have been connected. 
with those of India. 
Perhaps the most striking new type is a large ruminant referred 
by the author to the Giraffide, and stated to connect Helladotherium 
and the Giraffe with some of the aberrant Antelopes of Pikermi. 
Finally a large Ostrich is especially noteworthy from a distributional 
point of view, since we now have remains of this genus from Samos, 
the Thracian Chersonese, and Northern India. R. 1: 
Notr.—We learn that Dr. H. Woodward has just returned 
(20 August) from Florence, having secured Dr. C. Forsyth-Major’s 
valuable collection from Samos for the British Museum (Natural 
History), Cromwell Road, to which it will doubtless prove a most 
important addition. 
