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but most probably a Cricetodon minus ; the only molar present is so 

 much worn that I cannot be positive on the subject. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII. 



Skeleton of the type -specimen of Sciurus Brcdai, H. v. Mey. Two-thirds nat. size. 

 Middle Miocene : Oeningen. 

 E.M., right maxilla; L.M., left maxilla; E.S., right scapula; L.S., left 

 scapula; L.H., left humerus; E.E., right radius; E.U., right ulna; L.E., left 

 radius; L.U., left ulna; E.G., right calcaneus; E.Fi., right fibula; E.T., right 

 tibia; L.F., left femur; L.Fi., left fibula; L.T., left tibia; C, left calcaneus; 

 I, II, III, IV, first to fourth left metatarsals. 



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Preliminary Notice of the Etcheminian Fauna of New- 

 foundland. By G. F. Matthew. [Bull. Nat. Hist. Society of 

 N. Brunswick ; St. John, N.B., June, 1899.] 



rilHIS paper describes in outline the species obtained from the 

 X Etcheminian rocks (below the Cambrian) in Newfoundland. 



The former is interesting as showing a departure from the 

 groupings of genera found in the Cambrian. Trilobites are said 

 to be absent or rare ; there is a great preponderance of Hyolithidae, 

 which are present in several different types (Heyolithes, Orthotheca, 

 Urotheca, n.gen.). The other classes of animals present are all small, 

 or even minute, except Capulidee among the Gasteropods. The 

 classes recognized are Brachiopoda, Gasteropoda, Lamellibranchiata, 

 Annelida, and Crustacea. The genera are Kutorgina, Obolella, 

 Scenella, Bandomia (n.gen.), Parmophorella (?), Platyceras, Modio- 

 lopsis, Urotheca, Helenia, Hyalithellus (?), Coleoides, Orthotheca, 

 Heyolithes, and Aptychopsis. 



Three plates of figures accompany the article, which is supple- 

 mentary to a description of the stratigraphy, etc., of the terrane in 

 which the fossils are found, and which description appeared in the 

 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. xii, No. 2, 

 pp. 41, 56. 



12, E ^T I E "VsT" S. 



Life and Lettj;rs of Sir Joseph Prestwich, M.A., D.C.L., 

 F.E.S., F.G.S., formerly Professor of Geology in the 

 University of Oxford. Written and Edited by his Wife. 

 8vo; pp. xvi and 444, with 24 illustrations. (Edinburgh and 

 London : William Blackwood & Sons, 1899.) ^ 



THIS book forms a most expressive and touching memorial from 

 the pen of Lady Prestwich to her husband, and is embellished, 

 as such a memorial should be, with portraits of himself in middle 

 life and in his later years ; of the ancient home of his family, 

 " Hulme," near Manchester ; of his new home, " Darent Hulme," 

 Shoreham, Kent, where he happily spent so many of his later years ; 



1 For a life of Professor Joseph Prestwich see also Geol. Mag., Dec. Ill, Vol. X 

 (1893), p. 241 (with a portrait). 



