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Felide, &c. The anterior tooth, associated with carnassial teeth 
and the small tubercular tooth, was compressed and sharp-pointed. 
The low condyle forming part of the angle of the jaw, was such as 
occurs in Thylacinus, not as in Chetromys. 
Dr. Duncan remarked that it is by no means necessary that all 
Carnivorous Mammals should be formed upon the same type, and 
that he did not see why there should not be a carnivorous form of 
the Kangaroo type. 
The Cuarrman said that the settlement of these questions must 
now be postponed until we obtain further materials. He mentioned 
the discovery by Dr. Krefft, in the interior of Australia, of a species 
of fish resembling Lepidosiren, and possessing singular affinities to 
some of the Devonian fishes. 
2. On Fosstt Remains of Mammats found in Curna. 
By Prorrssor Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
[Puates XXVIT.-XXIX.] 
Since making known in 1858 the fact of a fossil tooth of an ele- 
phantine species having been obtained at Shanghai, China*, I have 
omitted no opportunity of acquiring further evidences of the ex- 
tinct mammals of that part of the Asiatic continent ; and I am now 
enabled to communicate characters of remains of several other 
mammalian genera, through the kindness of Robert Swinhoe, Esq., 
late H.M. Consul in the Island of Formosa, and to whom zoology is 
indebted for several interesting discoveries. 
Before proceeding to the description of Mr. Swinhoe’s specimens, 
I may premise a more complete description than has appeared of the 
first-mentioned fossil, of which outlines of the grinding-surface and 
inner and outer side views are appended, of the natural size Cer 
XXYVII. figs. 1, 2, 3). 
STEGODON SINENSIS, Ow. 
The tooth in question is the second upper molar (d3 of the type 
series) from the right side. Its crown, in a length of three inches, 
is divided into five transverse ridges, the proportions of which, as to 
height and basal breadth, with the ridged and wrinkled character of 
the enamel, suffice for its reference to a species of the group of Pro- 
boscidians discovered by Crawfurd in the Irrawadi Tertiaries of 
Ava, and described by Clift in the second volume of the second series 
of the Transactions of the Geological Society (p. 369, pls. 86-39, 
1828). And here I beg leave to express my sense of the wise 
appreciation of the needs of the paleontologist by the Council of the 
Society in publishing figures of the type molars of those “ Transi— 
tional Mastodons’”+ of the natural size. 
In the present tooth the first or foremost ridge (Pl. XX VII. figs. 1 
* By Mr. Lockhart, ‘Report of the British Association for the year 1858,’ 
“ President’s Address, ” p- Ixxxvi. 
t Odontography, p. 224, Section 228. 
