CONTENTS. 



I. On the Characters and Affinities of Potamogale, a genus of Insectivorous Mammals. 



By Geokge J. Allman, F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Zool. Soc. Lond., Begins Professor of 

 Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, and Begins Keeper of the Edin- 

 burgh Museum of Natural History page 1 



II. On some Indian Cetacea collected by Walter Elliot, Esg. By Professor Owen, 



F.B.S., F.Z.S., &c 17 



III. On the Osteology of the Bodo (Didus ineptus, Linn.). By Professor Owen, F.B.S., 



F.Z.S.,&c 49 



IV. Description of the Skeleton of Inia geofirensis and of the Skull of Pontoporia 



blainvillii, with Bemarks on the Systematic Position of these Animals in the 

 Order Cetacea. By William Henry Flower, F.B.S., F.B.C.S., F.Z.S., &c.. 

 Conservator of the Museum of the Boyal College of Surgeons of England . 87 



V. On a Baptorial Bird transmitted by Mr. Andeksson/tojji Bamara Land. By J. H. 



Gurnet, F.Z.S. 117 



VI. On some Fossil Birds from the Zebbug Cave, Malta. By W. K. Parker, F.B.S., 



F.Z.S., d-c 119 



VII. Synopsis of the species of recent Crocodilians or Emydosaurians, chiefly founded on 



the specimens in the British Museum and the Boyal College of Surgeons. By 

 Dr. John Edward Gray, F.B.S., V.P.Z.S., F.L.S., &c 125 



VIII. Note to Memoir on the Indian Cetacea collected by Sir Walter Elliot. By Pro- 



fessor Owen, F.B.S., F.Z.S., &c 171 



IX. Contributions towards a more complete knowledge of the Skeleton of the Primates. 



By St. George Mivart, F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Mary's 

 Hospital. Part 1. The Appendicular Skeleton of Simla 175 



X. Description of the Bemains of three extinct Species of Elephant, collected by Captain 



Spratt, C.B., B.N., in the Ossiferous Cavern of Zebbug, in the Island of Malta. 

 By Geouge Busk, F.B.S.; partly from the Notes of the late H. Falconer, M.B., 

 F.B.S 227 



