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bear, and is peculiar in its short muzzle and bull-dog face. The 
speaker next exhibited a specimen of a lizard from the museum at 
the university at Berkeley, which was collected by Dr. J. G. 
Cooper, of the Geological Survey of this State. He stated that 
it was a new species of a little-known genus (named Xantusia by 
Baird), and formed an interesting addition to the herpetology of 
California. He named it Xantusia riversiana, in compliment to 
Mr. Rivers, of the University of California. Prof. Cope next 
called attention to a pair of feet of a deer belonging to the Acad- 
emy, which were sent from Mendocino county. Each of these 
possessed but one central toe and hoof, instead of the usual pair. 
The speaker stated that the toes of the hinder feet were united 
throughout, and were so far developed beyond the usual point 
attained by the ordinary ruminant. The toes of the fore limb 
were different, one only being continued to the hoof, all the others 
being rudimental. “On the Hog-wallow Land of the San Joa- 
quin valley,” a very interesting paper, was read by Judge Hastings, 
and gave rise to considerable discussion. The title refers to the 
mound-lands common on the Pacific coast, such as occur at San 
Diego, on the Sacramento, Columbia, etc. 
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SELECTED, ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
BULLETIN OF THE U.S. sahara AND GEOGRAPHICAL SuR- 
VEY OF THE TERRITORIES, VOL. v, No. 2.—September 6. th 
Coatis, by J. A. Allen. On the "paesent status of Passer domesti- 
cus in ‘America, with especial reference to the Western States and 
Territories, by Dr. Elliott Coues. The Laramie group of Western 
Wyoming and adjacent regions, by A. C. Peale. On Lithophane 
and new Noctuidæ, by A. R. Grote. Palæontological Papers, 
No. 11.—Remarks upon certain Carboniferous fossils from Colo- 
rado, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, and certain Cretaceous 
corals from Colorado, together with descriptions of new forms, by 
C. A. White; The so-called Two-ocean pass, by F. V. Hayden ; 
On the extinct species of byes ory of North America and 
their allies, by E. D. Cope. Second installment of American 
Ornithological Boga. by Elliott Coues. 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL oF MıcroscorIcaL ScIeNcE.—October. 
On some points in the development of the common newt, by W. 
B. Scott and H. F. Osborn. The structure of Matiphysema 
tumanowiczi, by E. R. Lankester (is not a sponge but a Protozoön). 
Lithameba discus, one of the Gymnomyxa, by E. R. Lankester. 
_ On the structure of the vertebrate Spermatozooén, by H. Gibbes.. 
HE GEOLOGICAL MaGazinE.—October. On the classification : 
of De yae Pre-cambrian rocks, by H. Hi icks. Origin of pipe — 
esley. oo 
on ore, by Reb 
