202 O. C. Marsh—New Tertiary Mammals. 
ments, as above quoted. Had I sooner met with them I would 
have prefaced my paper with a minute account of his work. 
it is, 1 doa now can, and here publicly render to M. 
Konig the amende honorable. 
Let us now proceed to examine another paragraph of Dr. 
Radau’s paper, after having perused the account of my experi- 
ments from No. 2 to No. 9 inclusive, M. Radau says, “ If the 
forks are mounted on resonators, the change of pitch can also be 
observed by imparted vibrations. One fork is left upon a table; 
the other, tuned wnisono, is strongly vibrated and approached 
to or moved from the other. If the second fork is in contact 
res paragraph, so complacently to appropriate my work. 
Thus one M. Radau, a Frenchman, treats the ‘one Mr. A. M. 
Mayer, an American.” 
July 5th, 1872. 
Art. XXVIII.—Preliminary Description of New Tertiary 
Mammals; by O. C. Marsa. Part IL 
_ THE present communication is a continuation of the article 
in the preceding number of the Journal (p. 122), in which were 
described some of the new mammalian remains discovered by 
Limnofelis ferox, gen. et sp. nov. 
: A gigantic carnivore, nearly as large as a lion, is npn 
in our collections by portions of a skull, a fragment of a lower 
jaw containing the sectorial molar, and by some vertebre and 
