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that they must have been known for a considerable time prior 
to that date. — C. E. Brssry. 
On AN EOCENE GENUS ALLIED TO THE Lemurs. — Professor Cope 
recently read a paper before the American Philosophical Society 
on an extinct mammal from Wyoming which he called Anapto- 
. morphus œmulus. The number of teeth in the lower jaw is pre- 
cisely the same as in man and the higher apes, but their structure 
is nearer that of certain Lemurs at present existing in Madagascar 
and East Africa. This resemblance is closer than has yet been 
discovered to exist in any fossil genus, but is somewhat dimin- 
ished by the separation by suture of the two halves of the lower 
jaw. The animal was as large as a squirrel. 
Fosst. Monkxeys.— Dr. Forsyth Major has just published in 
Italy an account of certain fossil Simian remains which have 
lately been for the first time discovered in Italy, and which he 
refers to aspecies closely allied to the Barbary ape, Macacus inuus, 
still found at Gibraltar. To this account the writer appends a 
history of all fossil Quadrumana at present known. Of these, 
seven species belong to Pliocene and Quaternary, ten to Miocene, 
and three to Eocene strata. No fossil Lemuride have yet been 
discovered; the fossils as yet found in S. America belonging 
to the Platyrrhini, still peculiar to the Neotropical region. All 
the rest belong to the Catarrhini, and some to the anthropomor- 
phous genera; these have all been found in the old world, but 
while some occurred in India, others inhabited France, Germany, 
Greece and England.—A. W. B. 
On Some or PROFESSOR Copr’s Recent INVESTIGATIONS. — In 
the Narurauist for November last (p. 669), Prof. E. D. Cope has 
a paper on the “ Coal Beds of Wyoming,” in which he claims to 
have made the discovery that these strata are of Cretaceous age. 
This, however, was already known to every one familiar with the 
geology of that region. The existence of Cretaceous coal in 
various parts of the Green River basin had previously been es- — 
tablished by Mr. Meek, Messrs. King and Emmons, and myself, 
although Professor Cope makes no reference to our researches. 
Any one wishing to consult the recent literature on this subject 
will find it cited in the ‘* American Journal of Science” for De- 
cember 1872, page 489. 
