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The contents of No. 102 are as follow : — 



* On the British Diastylidae.' By C. Spence Bate, F.L.S. 



6 Description of a New Species of Sphaerium found near London/ 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray. 



6 Description of Eight New Species of Birds from South America. 7 

 By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., &c. 



1 On Scissurella and Schismope.' By J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., 

 F.R.S. 



' On the Orang Utan or Mias of Borneo.' By Alfred R. Wallace. 



• On Professor Huxley's Attempted Refutation of Cuvier's Laws of 

 Correlation in the Reconstruction of Extinct Vertebrate Forms.' By 

 H. Falconer, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 



' Descriptions of Three New Species of Paludomus from Burmah, 

 and of some Forms of Stenothyra (Nematura) from Penang, Mergui, 

 &c.' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



6 On the Minute Structure of Certain Brachiopod Shells and on 

 Vegetable Cell Formation.' By William B. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S., &c. 



Bibliographical Notice : — * General Outline of the Organization of 

 the Animal Kingdom, a Manual of Comparative Anatomy;' by 

 Thomas Rymer Jones, F.R.S. (second edition). 



Proceedings of Societies: — Zoological, Botanical of Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous : — On the Influence of the Soil on the Distribution 

 of Plants; by M. Stur. Note on the Freshwater Dolphins of South 

 America ; by M. P. Gervais. 



Mr. Wallace's accounts of the orang utan are extremely interesting, 

 indeed are the only oases in the desert of Science which these two 

 numbers contain. Speaking of a baby orang, Mr. Wallace writes: — 

 " This little animal was probably not more than a month old when I 

 obtained it by shooting its mother, with whom it fell to the ground, 

 apparently uninjured. I found out afterwards that it had then broken 

 a leg and an arm, which, however, mended so rapidly that I only 

 noticed it, a week or two afterwards, by observing the hard swellings 

 on the limbs where the irregular junction of the bone had taken place. 

 When I first obtained it, it was toothless, but a few days afterwards 

 it cut its two lower front teeth. I fed it with rice-water, given out of 

 a bottle with a quill in the cork, which, after one or two trials, it 

 sucked very well. When, however, a finger was placed in its mouth 

 it would suck at it with remarkable vigour, drawing in its little cheeks 

 with all its might, thinking, no doubt, it had got hold of the right 



