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ent paper to be the best, if not sole, evidences of the wild origi- 
nals of some of our domesticated breeds. Like i alleged wild 
horses of Prussia, those Aquitaine, in the of the fiint- 
armed hunters and sexo duellers, were doubtless “ “a and difficult 
of capture, but very good venison 
‘3 ove memoir is followed by another, under the same cove 
caer Supplementary Kemains of Eq yuines Srom = mi al pe 
South America r WD. s tau Ow., 
and cum areidens Ow. vin this: paper Professor pen ie sides dis. 
cussing the characters of the different kinds of fossil horse in the 
regions referred to, treats of their relations to the extinct genera 
Macrauchenia, Nesodon, and Toxodon, and illustrates the subject 
with numerous figures on six lithographic plates. He observes. 
that according to the ote made out, the most ancient Equines ot 
the South American continent present modifications of the wide 
molars, and more especially of the lower molars, which suppl 
additional link between the Equines with ot ther verbinadantyis 
Ungulates, ~ the phe including Toxodon and the other genera 
above mentio 
5. The ‘North American Lakes as Chronometers of Post-glacial 
time.—Dr. E. ANDrEws, the author of this paper, noticed at p. 264 
of this volume, sta - ,in a recent letter, that his method of calcu- 
lation eliminates the error alluded to in the notice, due to the 
wearing away of the sands. He says that in the calculation, “ the 
ascertaining the age of its cotemporary terrace = ero 
to error from attrition of sand. The age of the cs beaches is 
oeaecas 
6. Descriptions of new Fossil Shells of the Upper Amazon; by 
T. A. —— (Am. J. of Conch., Oct. 10, 1870).—Mr, Conrad 
describes several species of shells from the deposit at Paar: on 
the Amnon, visited by Prof. — (see p. 294 of this sei 
misin 
Bulimus is the only jana shell in the saileation: “The aeons 
Be have lived either i in fre. h or prncich'yntor: but are certainly 
e origin.” sciea appear to be all ‘extinct, and if so, 
it by admirable roreetter He does not a 
Seeley with — to the relations of Pterosaurs to Birds. 
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