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but the angle is more produced downward, and much inflected. 
The teeth are more numerous than in any known Quadrumana. 
Some of the species have apparently forty teeth, arranged as fol- 
lows: Incisors = canines * premolars and molars i A full de- 
scription of these interesting remains, the first of the order detected 
in this country, will be given by the writer at an early day. 
Yale College, Oct. 7th, 1872. 
2. Note on a new genus of Carnivores from the Tertiary of 
Wyoming ; by O. C. Marsu.—Additional remains of the large 
Carnivore described by the writer, on page 203, as Limnofelis 
from L. ferox. The canines and premolars of the lower jaw some- 
what resemble those in the Hyena, but there were only two 
inc i 
3. Notice of a New Reptile from the Cretaceous; by O. ©. 
Marsu.—An interesting addition to the Reptilian fauna of the 
as is avery small Saurian, which differs 
widely from any hitherto discovered. The onl 
possess. e 
planted in distinct sockets, and are directed obliquely backward. 
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and with very acute summits. The rami were united in front 
: re is no distinct groove on their mner 
surface, as in all known Mosasauroids. The dentigerous portio? 
of jaw i i i st 
an 
coverer, Professor B. F. Mudge, who found the remains 10 the 
upper Cretaceous shale of Western Kansas. 
Yale College, Oct. 7th, 1872. / 
4. ent Eruption of Mauna Loa; by Rev. Trrus COAX: 
(From a letter to J. D. Dana, dated Hilo, Hawaii, Aug. 27,1872). 
—On the night of the 10th inst. a grand and lofty pillar of lig # 
rose from the summit of the mountain to the height of some 2,000 
feet. This was directly over the great terminal crater, Mokua- 
weoweo. It was most distinctly seen at first from Kilauea and 
