REVIEWS. 103 
ivora), 200 Quadrumana (Monkies), and about as many Artiodactyla.* — 
A. Müller proves that the male fox lives in polygamy, and does not assist 
in rearing his offspring. — A young Hippopotamus has been successfully 
reared in the Zodlogical Gardens in Amsterdam. — Mr. G. O. Sars refers 
to the contradictory statements of naturalists with regard to the ejection 
of water from the blow-holes of whales. He ana reo if the head with 
the blow-hole is geej above the surface of the water, nothing but air is 
expelled; but if, at the moment of expiration, the mane is still below the 
thology, the most important fact elicited during the year is the discovery 
of the bones of the Dodo by Mr. Clark, chronicled on p. 614, vol. 1, of the 
NATURALIST. — In a work on the fossil birds of France, A. Milne-Edwards 
reports that all the fossil birds of the tertiary epoch can be included in 
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of which, a ss large Grus, is extinct, though as regards France, two 
species, Lago albus, the White Ptarmigan, and Nyctea nivea, the Snowy 
owl, both APTE H of the arctic jag no longer exist there, being 
relics of the Glacial aa e t Auk is supposed to have oc- 
curred of late years on the rwegi coast, and it is supposed to 
have bred on Lundy Island i of piedi in 1838 or 1839. — 
commission of Dutch naturalists have reported on the Ship-worm, 
c ing i acks. i 
o olid 
wood by the mechanical rasping action of the minute denticulations 
covering a part of the surface of its valves, se movements having “a 
seen by M. Kater on a living animal. It has an enemy in a worm, Lyco 
fucata Haan, which feeds upon it. As La, means of protection aS 
commission report : — 
t is of no use to coat the surface of the wood with any substance sup- 
posed to be sind to the Teredo, as this coating TR be damaged 
sooner or. lat 
- The wallet on of the wood with soluble inorganic salts, does not 
prevent ‘ha animal from invading the woo: 
3. The hardness of the wood itself does not offer any protection, the 
wood of the “ gaiac” and the ‘‘ mamberklak” being invaded 
4. The only means offering a high probability % protection against the 
ani the impregnation of the w with creosote. — M. Alphonse 
Milne-Edwards says of Lysianassa (Eurytenes) Te that he has 
ompared a specimen from Spitzbergen with one in the Paris Museum, 
“taken from a fish’s stomach near the Straits of Magellan. These two 
individuals seem to resemble each other very closely (beaucoup), and I 


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* Profess: 5. eee aa + P + Dowd, 7. 
E or a ee {rtiodactyla (including most of the ruminants), which con- 
Sist of those with an even number of toes. 

