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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 50. 



After enumerating in a similar manner the 

 changes that occur in other parts of the body, 

 especially in the vertebrse, brain and mouth, the 

 author gives a detailed study of the inter-rela- 

 tionships of the different groups of monkeys and 

 lemurs. Space will not permit an analysis of 

 this part of the work, but the following table of 

 supergeneric groups (p. 12), arranged according 

 to their greater or less resemblance to the 

 Insectivora, gives a concise synopsis of the con- 

 clusions reached by Mr. Winge. 



Lemuroidei. 

 Tarsiidae. 

 Adapini. 

 Tarsiini. 

 Lemuridae. 



Nycticebini. 

 Otolicini. 

 Nycticebi. 

 Lemurini. 

 Lemures. 

 Propitheci. 

 Ceboidei. 

 Cebidse. 



Mycetini. 



Callitriches. 

 Pithecise. 

 MyeetiE. 

 Hapalini. 

 Cebini. 

 Cebl. 

 Ateles. 

 Simiidse. 

 Simiini. 



Hylobatae. 

 Homines. 

 Sirais. 

 Cercopithecini. 

 Cercopitheci. 

 Cynocephali. 



Gereit S. Miller, Jr. 



Palseozoic Fossils (Vol. 3, Part II.). By J. E. 



Whiteaves. Geological Survey of Canada. 



Ottawa. 1895. 



This publication contains two papers : (1) Re- 

 vision of the fauna of the Guelph formation of 

 Ontario, with descriptions of a few new species, 

 and (2) Systematic list, with references, of the 

 fossils of the Hudson River or Cincinnati forma- 

 tion at Stony Mountain, Manitoba. In the first 

 paper 130 species and varieties are enumerated, 

 and it may be considered as a complete list of 

 the fossils so far known from the Guelph of 

 Canada. The new species described are Mon- 

 omerella durhamensis, Pleurotomaria velaris, P. 

 halei var., P. townsendii, Loxonema magnum 



var. , Pohjtropis durhamensis, P. parvulus and 

 Illeenus aboynensis. 



The second paper dealing with fossils from 

 Stony Mountain is interesting as a systematic 

 list of all the fossils from this lonely outlier of 

 the Cincinnati group of the Lower Silurian. 

 The rocks are said to be ' identical, both in 

 their lithological and paleontological characters, 

 with the well-known rocks of the Hudson 

 River or Cincinnati group of southern Ohio and 

 elsewhere. ' If this be the case it is interesting 

 to note the presence here of a species of Fava- 

 sites {F. prolificns, perhaps only a variety of F. 

 gothlandicus) well known as a Niagara fossil in 

 Ohio, but not yet found in the true Cincinnati 

 rocks. Most of the others are well-known fos- 

 sils occurring in Ohio, although appearing 

 under names not given in the older volumes 

 on Paleontology of New York or Ohio. The 

 plates in the pamphlet, seven in all, are beauti- 

 fully lithographed. J. F. J. 



Contributions to a Biography of Linnseus. By 



Th. M. Fries. 



Prof. Th. M. Fries, of Upsala, Sweden, has 

 for a number of years been engaged in a critical 

 study of the life of Linnaeus, and the first instal- 

 ment of his forthcoming work was some time 

 ago published in the University Annual. The 

 paper treats of the early life of the great natu- 

 ralist up to the time of his entermg the Univer- 

 sity of Upsala at the age of twenty-one. 



The author is clearing away some of the 

 fictions with which the earlier biographers have 

 sometimes adorned their accounts of the career 

 of the ' Flower King. ' 



While it is true that Linua3us did not come of 

 a distinguished line of ancestors, the author 

 shows that he was no exception to the laws of 

 descent and of inheritance of mental traits, as 

 some have made it out. His male ancestors on 

 his mother's side belonged to the clergy and had 

 for three generations been rectors in the same 

 parish, and his lineage on his father's side ex- 

 tends into the best peasantry of Sm&land. It is 

 also noted that both of his parents took much 

 interest in gardening and in the culture of 

 flowers. With the relatives of his father, the 

 author says, this seems to have been an often 

 recurring trait. An uncle of Linnffius' father. 



