_ The preface states that it is the intention of the author to make this 
ork the first of a series—to be followed by a second “On Man and the 
ther Primates ;” a third on the remaining Mammalia, and others,—so as 
eventually to bring out “a comprehensive, though condensed, systematic 
” 
14. Notice of the Megatherium Cuvieri, the giant fossil Ground-Sloth 
f South America, presented to the University of Rochester by Hiram 
ibley, Esq. 34 pp., 4to—The Geological Cabinet of the Rochester 
Papers of Van Beneden on the fauna of the Belgian coast. It treats de- 
Et, and in part embryologically, of many of the species there 
und, ; 
IV. ASTRONOMY. - 
Astronomy, — 295. 
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